Deck 9: Autonomous and Pervasive Technology

Question 1

____ is intelligent.

A) A vacuum cleaner robot
B) An algorithm for playing backgammon
C) A marble rolling down the hill
D) A bomb-defusing robot

Answer 1

B

Question 2

The term ____ means any object made by humans.

A) intellectual property
B) robot
C) autonomous product
D) artifact

Answer 2

D

Question 3

A(n) ____ is an electro-mechanical device capable of movement or action.

A) robot
B) cyclon
C) autonomous object
D) universal object

Answer 3

A

Question 4

When we say that technology is autonomous, we mean that it has spread widely throughout society.

Question 5

The concepts of autonomous technology, robots, and artificial intelligence are identical.

Question 6

Web crawlers are often called ____.

A) algorithms
B) surfers
C) bots
D) googles

Question 7

The ____ algorithm looks at the links between Web pages to figure out which Web pages are most important.

A) Web Crawler
B) SmartBot
C) Page Analysis
D) PageRank

Question 8

A personal locator beacon costs about ____.

A) $27
B) $250
C) $15,000
D) $25,000

Question 9

____ is robotic.

A) Stock-trading software used in algorithmic trading
B) An algorithm for playing backgammon
C) A marble rolling down the hill
D) A bomb-defusing robot

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a possible camera?

A) smart phone
B) router
C) Nintendo 3DS
D) laptop computer

Question 11

____ is a human-made artifact's ability to learn and reason.

A) Robotic intelligence
B) Autonomous intelligence
C) Artificial intelligence
D) Transactional intellectualism

Question 12

____ learning algorithms allow computers to take in data and automatically learn to recognize patterns and make predictions about them.

A) Ad hominem
B) Machine
C) Tolerance
D) Deontological

Question 13

A growing body of research indicates that robot companions decrease loneliness.

Question 14

____ is NOT an autonomous object.

A) A vacuum cleaner robot
B) A bomb-defusing robot
C) Stock-trading software used in algorithmic trading
D) An algorithm for playing backgammon

Question 15

Ethicists who study technology are concerned that autonomous systems may become scapegoats that shield corporations and individuals from taking responsibility for their decisions.

Question 16

Which of the following is NOT a reason why computer-generated directions are usually superior to human-generated ones?

A) A computer can minimize right turns.
B) A computer can precisely calculate the length of every possible route from one place to another.
C) A computer uses consistent and precise terminology.
D) A computer can factor in extra information, besides length, to help generate better routes.

Question 17

According to the International Telecommunications Union ____ of people living in developing countries have cell phones.

A) 7.4%
B) 14.6%
C) 52.1%
D) 67.6%

Question 18

A Web ____ is a program whose job is to autonomously surf the Web and remember the content and location of everything it encounters.

A) algorithm
B) crawler
C) command
D) surfer

Question 19

____ are being widely adopted by both militaries and police forces.

A) QTDs
B) Epistemological weapons
C) Technology enforcers
D) UAVs

Question 20

According to the Five Rules, the amount of blame assigned to a person depends on the number of people involved

Question 21

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
the freedom to make decisions without outside constraints or interference

Question 22

____ stock- and commodity-trading is the practice of allowing a computer program to make decisions about what shares to buy and sell.

A) Algorithmic
B) Consequentialist
C) Robotic
D) Autonomously calculated

Question 23

By ____________________, we mean the freedom to make decisions without outside constraints or interference.

Question 24

A ____ code is a sort of two-dimensional barcode that can be read by camera phones and computers.

A) UR
B) QR
C) PR
D) BR

Question 25

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
the type of learning algorithm that allows computers to take in data and automatically learn to recognize patterns and make predictions about them

Question 26

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
something that has spread widely throughout society

Question 27

____ of American households do not have access to the Internet.

A) 11%
B) 17%
C) 30%
D) 47%

Question 28

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
an electro-mechanical device capable of movement or action

Question 29

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
another name for a Web crawler

Question 30

____________________ trading is the practice of using computers to trade investments back and forth much more quickly than humans can.

Question 31

____ reality is a computer graphics technology that draws virtual objects laid over the real world.

A) Managed
B) Consequentialist
C) Augmented
D) Differential

Question 32

The term GPS stands for ____________________.

Question 33

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
another name for a UAV

Question 34

Although ____ reality has been studied for more than 20 years, it is only recently that computers (in the form of smart phones) have gotten portable enough and powerful enough to put this technology into everyday use.

A) Managed
B) Consequentialist
C) Augmented
D) Differential

Question 35

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
a human-made artifact's ability to learn and reason

Question 36

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
a computer graphics technology that draws virtual objects laid over the real world

Question 37

The stock market drop of 900 points in a span of about 15 minutes on May 6, 2010 is referred to as the ____________________.

Question 38

Match each term with the correct statement below.
a.spider
f.personal locator beacon
b.artificial intelligence
g.robot
c.augmented reality
h.autonomy
d.drone
i.pervasive
e.machine
a technology that works in concert with the SARSAT system

Question 39

A committee of ethicists and computer science researchers known as the ____________________ formulated a set of principles, known as the Five Rules, for apportioning blame for harm caused by complicated computer systems.

Question 40

____ feedback has been incorporated in many phones that have touch screens, to make it easier to tell when a button has been pressed successfully.

A) Haptic
B) Differential
C) Augmented
D) Calculated

Question 41

Discuss the use of augmented reality in the Amnesty International ad discussed in the text.

Question 42

For what reason are the designers of UAVs trying to use machine learning?

Question 43

In what way can assigning moral blame for software failures be difficult?

Question 44

Provide a brief summary of the argument against scoring essays by computer.

Question 45

What is the basic idea behind the PageRank algorithm?

Question 46

How do autonomy and pervasiveness go hand in hand?

Question 47

What was the essential problem behind the flash crash on May 6, 2010 regarding algorithmic trading?

Question 48

What will be the outcome if augmented reality glasses become pervasive?

Question 49

How does gait recognition technology solve the problem of face recognition technology?

Question 50

How does a remote parking assistance feature work on a car?