When AI Predicts Nature

End-of-lesson check

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1. Which sentence best captures the main idea of 'When AI Predicts Nature'?

   1. Agents and chatbots are the same thing in every way
   2. Tools and goals are unnecessary for agent design
   3. Agents should always run without limits or oversight
   4. AI agents are being used to predict weather, fire risk, animal migration, and crop yields — with growing accuracy..

2. Which of the following is part of 'Where AI predicts nature well'?

   1. Avoid taking any actions in the world
   2. Skip every form of evaluation
   3. Hide tool calls from the operator
   4. Weather (better than physics models for many tasks). Wildfires (timing and direction). Crop yields (helps farmers plan).

3. Which of the following is part of 'Three high-impact uses'?

   1. Skip every form of evaluation
   2. Avoid taking any actions in the world
   3. Weather forecasting at lower cost
   4. Always run with no oversight

4. Which of the following is part of 'Review date'?

   1. Disable safety checks for speed
   2. Never log what the agent did
   3. Reviewed in 2026. Treat fast-changing product names, prices, availability, and policy details as examples to verify before use.
   4. Hide tool calls from the operator

5. What is 'GraphCast' in this context?

   1. A trick to bypass approvals
   2. A reason to skip all logging
   3. A core concept covered in When AI Predicts Nature
   4. A way to disable the agent's tools

6. What is 'wildfire model' in this context?

   1. A way to disable the agent's tools
   2. A trick to bypass approvals
   3. A core concept covered in When AI Predicts Nature
   4. A reason to skip all logging

7. What is 'climate AI' in this context?

   1. A way to disable the agent's tools
   2. A reason to skip all logging
   3. A core concept covered in When AI Predicts Nature
   4. A trick to bypass approvals

8. What is a thoughtful use of an agent for a nature project?

   1. Selling collected data without consent
   2. Identifying species from photos, organizing logs, and drafting reports humans verify
   3. Editing GPS data without disclosure
   4. Replacing field observation entirely

9. Which of these is the strongest indicator that an agent workflow is ready to scale?

   1. It worked once for one user
   2. It used the latest model
   3. It passes a repeatable eval, has cost in budget, and a rollback plan
   4. It runs without any logging

10. Why are clear success criteria critical when building an agent?

    1. They reduce the number of tokens used
    2. They are required by law
    3. They make the agent sound smarter
    4. Without them you cannot tell whether the agent worked or guess

11. What is the difference between an agent's memory and its context window?

    1. Memory is faster but less accurate than context
    2. Nothing — they are the same thing
    3. Context is what the model sees right now; memory persists across runs
    4. Context lasts forever; memory is cleared every minute

12. An agent quietly retries a failed payment 50 times overnight. What design principle was missing?

    1. Bounded retries with human notification on repeated failure
    2. More creative prompting
    3. A larger model
    4. A bigger context window

13. Which budget control most directly prevents runaway costs from an agent loop?

    1. A longer context window
    2. A friendly system prompt
    3. A bigger model
    4. A hard cap on steps, tokens, or dollars per task

14. Which is the best way to think about an agent's 'autonomy level'?

    1. It is binary — fully autonomous or not
    2. It depends only on the model size
    3. It is a slider from suggestion only, to ask-then-act, to act-then-report, to fully autonomous
    4. Autonomy does not affect risk

15. Which signal best tells you an agent is stuck in a runaway loop?

    1. It keeps repeating the same tool call with no new progress
    2. It returns a short summary and stops
    3. It asks one clarifying question
    4. It finishes the task in one step