Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Week 1 Answers
Are you looking for Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Week 1 Answers? All weeks solutions of this Swayam course are available here.
Table of Contents

Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Week 1 Answers (July-Dec 2025)
Course link: Click here to visit course on Nptel Website
Question 1. George B. Dyson refers to _____________ as the patriarch of artificial intelligence in his book, “Darwin Among the Machines: The Evolution of Global Intelligence”.
a) John McCarthy
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Alan Turing
d) Herbert Simon
Question 2. Heuristic searching, which is now a central idea of AI was employed to design _________
a) The Logic Theorist, considered by many to be the first AI program.
b) Machines with minds, in the full and literal sense.
c) Electromechanical machines to read thousands of German radio intercepts.
d) A simple test that could be used to prove that machines could think.
Question 3. Of the different dimensions of Artificial Intelligence, “Think Rationally” is to
a) Model human cognition.
b) Formalize the inference process.
c) Do the right thing.
d) Exhibit human behaviour.
Question 4. _________ aims at building machines that act intelligently, without taking a position on whether or not the machines actually are intelligent.
a) Weak AI
b) Strong AI
c) Connectionist AI
d) Symbolic AI
Question 5. Assertion A: AI Production System with uninformed control system have Low Control Strategy Cost.
Reason R: At the uninformed extreme, the control strategy is guided by the problem knowledge great enough to select a correct rule every time. Mark the correct choice as:
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation for A
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation for A
c) A is True but R is False
d) A is false but R is True
These are Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Week 1 Answers
Question 6. Fringe are the nodes waiting in a sequence to be explored. Fringe for the Depth-First Search is a _________ data structure.
a) Unordered
b) FIFO
c) LIFO
d) Queue
Question 7. Fringe are the nodes waiting in a sequence to be explored. Fringe for the Breadth-First Search is a _________ data structure.
a) Unordered
b) FIFO
c) LIFO
d) Stack
These are Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Week 1 Answers
Question 8. There are two distinct specialized production systems; Order in which a set of applicable rules is applied to a database is unimportant for a ________ production system.
a) Decomposable
b) Commutative
c) Specialized
d) AND/OR
Question 9. For bidirectional search is a graph search algorithm that runs two simultaneous searches. Which of the following statements is false for bidirectional search?
a) Requires the ability to generate predecessor states.
b) Bidirectional search is always optimal.
c) Stop when the frontiers intersect.
d) Works well only when there are unique start and goal states.
Question 10. Identify the criterion on which search strategies are evaluated:
a) Completeness
b) Consistency
c) Space complexity
d) Admissibility
These are Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Week 1 Answers