Deck 5: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence

Question 1

Which chess champion did Deep Blue defeat?

A) Garry Kasparov
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Bobby Fisher
D) Gibson Praise

Answer 1

A
Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov four years before Watson competed on Jeopardy.

Question 2

What is the name of the research program trying to mimic the motor and cognitive development of babies in robots?

A) The Machine Project
B) Project One
C) Universal Robots
D) The Roomba Project

Answer 2

B
The project is led by Javier Movellan,who is now tackling that very question,leading a team of cognitive scientists,engineers,developmental psychologists,and roboticists.

Question 3

What program created a human-like thinking machine that competed on Jeopardy?

A) IBM's Watson
B) The Moshe Dayan Project
C) IBM's Deep Blue
D) The Justin Bernbach Project

Answer 3

A
IBM's Watson built on the successes of the earlier Deep Blue program to defeat the two top Jeopardy champions of all time.

Question 4

In identifying which human rights would be protected under roboethics,what two documents were referenced?

A) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Treaty of Lisbon
B) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Treaty of Barcelona
C) The Bill of Rights and the Treaty of Lisbon
D) The Bill of Rights and the Treaty of Barcelona

Question 5

What researcher wants to create an assessment system based on foresight and knowledge?

A) Renè von Schomberg
B) John Rawls
C) Sheila Jasanoff
D) Isaac Asimov

Question 6

The rapid development of research and applications for the personal service sector that coincided with the increased interest and contributions invested into advanced robotics since 2003 marks the end of which era?

A) The Robot Segregation Era
B) The Robot Integration Era
C) The Robot Equality Era
D) The Robot Renewal Era

Question 7

How much money did Watson bet when it was asked to wager on a Daily Double question before crashing?

A) $5,000
B) $50
C) $500
D) $5

Question 8

The statement "The most important moral obligation is our personal relationship with the action of making or using robots" defines what school of ethics?

A) Modern Ethics
B) Virtue Ethics
C) Descriptive Ethics
D) Rights Ethics

Question 9

Which events related to World War II are identified as cases that changed the notion of responsibility?

A) The Adolph Eichmann trial and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
B) The invasion of Iran by the Allied Powers
C) The invasion of Normandy on D-Day
D) The Treaty of Versailles

Question 10

What is the name of Hiroshi Ishiguro's robotic double?

A) Babybot
B) Infanoid
C) Robovie
D) Geminoid

Question 11

Whose research in science and society has sustained the idea that technoscientific knowledge stabilizes in society?

A) Renè von Schomberg
B) John Rawls
C) Sheila Jasanoff
D) Isaac Asimov

Question 12

Who coined the Three Laws of Robotics?

A) John Conner
B) Isaac Asimov
C) Fiorella Operto
D) Abbe Mowshowitz

Question 13

The notion that our actions may have consequences that are extremely difficult to estimate,which may even be opposite to our intentions,defines what concept?

A) Morin's Ecology of Action
B) Gaia Theory
C) Roboethics
D) Heterogenesis of Ends

Question 14

According to Operto,what other systems besides robotics may contribute to solving many open human issues?

A) Cryogenics Systems
B) Digital Economic Systems
C) Eugenics Systems
D) Bionics Systems

Question 15

Karel Capek derived the word "robot" from what language's word for serf labor or drudgery?

A) Czech
B) Serbian
C) Russian
D) Polish

Question 16

What does Movellan point out are innate to human babies that would have to be programmed into a robot?

A) Ambition
B) Needs
C) Emotion
D) Knowledge

Question 17

The Euron Roboethics Altier,Ethicbots,and Coordination Action for Robotics in Europe are three projects that?

A) Plan for a potential future clash of human and robotic culture
B) Consider how to integrate robots into future society
C) Identify and analyze technoethical issues in robotics
D) Determine the profitability of pursuing developments in advanced robotics

Question 18

What does Operto call "one of the central themes of applied ethics"?

A) Responsibility
B) Viability
C) Power
D) Virtue

Question 19

The notion that once an action is taken by an agent,it lives a life of its own that combines with different environmental conditions and the final result is beyond the agent's predictive abilities,is what concept?

A) Morin's Ecology of Action
B) Gaia Theory
C) Roboethics
D) Heterogenesis of Ends

Question 20

Which fields will probably raise more urgent and entangled ethical issues in robotics?

A) Cryogenics and Thermogenics
B) Biorobotics and robotics political applications
C) The SkyNet and Matrix projects
D) Biorobotics and robotics military applications