AI Sometimes Misses Brand New News

End-of-lesson check

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1. An AI says a new president was elected in your country last month. What should you do?

   1. Check a real news website to see if it's true
   2. Ignore it completely since AI never knows anything
   3. Stop using AI forever
   4. Believe the AI because it sounds confident

2. What does the term 'training cutoff' mean for an AI?

   1. The last date of information the AI learned from
   2. The date when AI was first invented
   3. The date when programmers finished writing the AI
   4. The moment AI was turned on for the first time

3. You ask an AI about the score of a game that happened today. What will likely happen?

   1. The AI might guess or give you an old score
   2. The AI will refuse to answer
   3. The AI will call the sports stadium to find out
   4. The AI will always give you the exact right score

4. Why might an AI not know about a movie that came out yesterday?

   1. Movies are not allowed in AI training data
   2. AI can only learn from books, not movies
   3. The movie is not famous enough
   4. The movie happened after the AI finished learning

5. What is 'outdated' information?

   1. Information that is completely made up
   2. Information that came from a textbook
   3. Information that is old and might not be true anymore
   4. Information that AI invented

6. Your friend asks you what's happening in the world right now. What should you use?

   1. An AI image generator
   2. A real news website or app
   3. An AI chatbot
   4. A dictionary

7. An AI tells you the capital of a country changed last year. Why might this be wrong?

   1. AI never knows anything about geography
   2. AI only knows about small countries
   3. Capitals don't change, so AI is lying
   4. The change might have happened after the AI's learning stopped

8. What did AI learn from to know about things that happened in the past?

   1. A huge pile of writing and data
   2. Talking to people today
   3. Guessing games
   4. Reading people's minds

9. Why might AI give a wrong answer about something it doesn't really know?

   1. It tries to sound helpful and might guess
   2. It always says 'I don't know'
   3. It randomly picks answers
   4. It wants to trick you

10. What is the 'smart kid trick' this lesson teaches about using AI?

    1. Never trust any AI answers
    2. Use AI for older info, real sources for breaking news
    3. Only use AI for math problems
    4. Use AI for everything since it's fast

11. You ask an AI about who won the World Cup this year. What might happen?

    1. The AI will definitely tell you the winner
    2. The AI will search the internet for you
    3. The AI might guess wrong or say it doesn't know
    4. The AI will call the soccer stadium

12. What does it mean if AI's information has a 'cutoff date'?

    1. Everything after that date is new to the AI
    2. The AI was thrown away on that date
    3. The AI only works during daytime
    4. The AI only works on certain dates

13. Why should you compare what AI says with a current website?

    1. Because websites are always right
    2. Because AI is always wrong
    3. To see if the information is still accurate and up to date
    4. To make the AI feel better

14. An AI says a new phone costs $200 but you saw it costs $400 today. Why the difference?

    1. The AI is trying to scam you
    2. Prices changed after the AI learned about phones
    3. AI only knows about cheap things
    4. Phones don't have prices

15. What happens when you ask AI about something that happened after its training?

    1. The AI will ask you for more information
    2. The AI might make up an answer or be wrong
    3. The AI will crash
    4. The AI will always correctly find the answer