Appendix A

Test Your Skills Answers and Solutions

Chapter 1

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. Answer: c. Alan Turing. Alan Turing is credited as the father of artificial intelligence for his development of the Turing machine and the Turing test, which are significant contributions to the field of AI.

2. Answer: a. Backpropagation algorithm. The backpropagation algorithm, developed in 1986, played a crucial role in the advancement of ML and training artificial neural networks. It allowed for the training of deep neural networks and led to significant changes in AI research.

3. Answer: d. All of these answers are correct. Feature extraction in ML serves multiple purposes. It helps reduce the dimensionality of the data, which makes it easier for ML ...

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