Artificial life - Quiz
Artificial life
  • 1. What primary technology do neural net-based simulations use for creatures to grow and learn?
A) Neural nets or derivatives
B) First principles
C) Cellular automata
D) Physical ontology
  • 2. What is the primary focus of many neural net-based simulations?
A) Natural selection
B) Learning
C) Evolutionary hardware
D) Economic modeling
  • 3. Which of the following is NOT one of the three types of mathematical models mentioned?
A) White-box
B) Transparent-box
C) Black-box
D) Grey-box
  • 4. What is another name for a black-box model?
A) Axiomatic
B) Mechanistic
C) First-principles
D) Phenomenological
  • 5. What characterizes a white-box model?
A) Transparent walls
B) Hidden mechanisms
C) Ignoring internal structure
D) Non-transparent nature
  • 6. What is a defining feature of black-box models?
A) They show first principles
B) They allow micro-level visibility
C) They are non-mechanistic
D) They reveal subsystem interactions
  • 7. What happens to the internal structure of a system in a black-box model?
A) It is automatically inferred
B) It is derived from axioms
C) It is ignored
D) It is highlighted
  • 8. Which model type is described as an intermediate approach?
A) Grey-box
B) White-box
C) Black-box
D) Phenomenological
  • 9. Why can't subsystem interactions be investigated in black-box models?
A) Because of their non-transparent nature
B) Because they ignore first principles
C) Because they only use cellular automata
D) Because they are too simple
  • 10. What is required before creating a white-box model?
A) Black-box mathematical methods
B) A priori basic knowledge
C) Non-deterministic logic
D) Arbitrary logical rules
  • 11. What is considered a necessary but not sufficient condition for a white-box model?
A) Arbitrary logical cellular automata
B) Deterministic logical cellular automata
C) Black-box methods
D) Phenomenological derivation
  • 12. What is the second necessary prerequisite for a white-box model?
A) Neural net training
B) Physical ontology
C) Randomized logic
D) Phenomenological structure
  • 13. How is white-box modeling described in relation to first principles?
A) Black-box statistical analysis
B) Randomized phenomenological estimation
C) Non-mechanistic data fitting
D) Automatic hyper-logical inference
  • 14. What is the main purpose of white-box modeling?
A) Hide internal structures
B) Prioritize phenomenological results
C) Avoid logical systems
D) Derive concrete mechanistic knowledge
  • 15. What distinguishes white-box cellular automata from arbitrary ones?
A) Lack of clear rules
B) Reliance on black-box methods
C) Use of hidden variables
D) Formulation of an intrinsic axiomatic system
  • 16. What happens if cellular automata rules are not formulated from first principles?
A) The model becomes perfectly accurate
B) The model reveals hidden interactions
C) The model may have weak relevance
D) The model becomes a white-box model
  • 17. Which effect describes the symbiosis between learning and evolution in higher organisms?
A) Baldwin effect
B) Butterfly effect
C) Parallelization effect
D) Mutation effect
  • 18. What type of language is typically used for the 'genome' in program-based simulations?
A) Natural language
B) Fixed parameter sets
C) Turing complete computer program
D) Machine learning weights
  • 19. How are mutations typically implemented in program-based artificial life simulations?
A) Random changes to the code
B) Environmental triggers
C) Manual editing by the user
D) Pre-programmed evolution paths
  • 20. What do module-based simulators generally emphasize over mutation and evolution?
A) Neuroevolution
B) Raw processing power
C) User creation and accessibility
D) Turing completeness
  • 21. In parameter-based simulations, how are organisms constructed?
A) With fully autonomous code
B) Through module assembly
C) With pre-defined and fixed behaviors
D) Using Turing complete languages
  • 22. Who named the discipline of Artificial Life?
A) Vladimir Georgievich Red'ko
B) Christopher Langton
C) Alan Turing
D) John von Neumann
  • 23. In what year was the field of Artificial Life named?
A) 1986
B) 1985
C) 1990
D) 1987
  • 24. Where was the first conference on Artificial Life held in 1987?
A) New York, New York
B) Los Alamos, New Mexico
C) Palo Alto, California
D) Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • 25. What does 'soft' artificial life refer to?
A) Surface modeling
B) Simulation theories
C) Software
D) Social structures
  • 26. What does 'hard' artificial life refer to?
A) Heuristic algorithms
B) Hardware
C) Hybrid systems
D) Humanoid robotics
  • 27. What does 'wet' artificial life refer to?
A) Weather patterns
B) Water-based systems
C) Biochemistry
D) Wetware computing
  • 28. Who proposed generalizing the modeling distinction to any process?
A) Vladimir Georgievich Red'ko
B) IEEE Symposium Committee
C) Charles Darwin
D) Christopher Langton
  • 29. What is the acronym for Open-Ended Evolution?
A) OEV
B) EVE
C) OPE
D) OEE
  • 30. What is a central goal in the philosophy and modeling of artificial life?
A) Creating a stable equilibrium
B) Achieving Open-Ended Evolution
C) Perfecting biomimicry in art
D) Replicating human intelligence
  • 31. What is considered a hallmark of natural life that current artificial systems have yet to fully replicate?
A) Hardware reliability
B) Biochemical synthesis
C) Open-Ended Evolution
D) Collective system properties
  • 32. What does 'hard' artificial life primarily consist of?
A) Computer software
B) Synthetic DNA
C) Minimal cells
D) Robots
  • 33. What is the primary field of study for biochemical-based ('wet') artificial life?
A) Robotics
B) Synthetic biology
C) Computer science
D) Mechanical engineering
  • 34. What is the term 'wet' artificial life an extension of?
A) Wetware
B) Software
C) Middleware
D) Hardware
  • 35. Which bacteria was used as a base for creating minimal cells?
A) Salmonella
B) Bacillus subtilis
C) Mycoplasma laboratorium
D) Escherichia coli
  • 36. In 2019, researchers reduced the number of codons in Escherichia coli from 64 to what number?
A) 63
B) 60
C) 61
D) 59
  • 37. How many amino acids were the modified Escherichia coli codons designed to encode?
A) 30
B) 25
C) 20
D) 15
  • 38. What unique capability did the biological robots reported in 2021 demonstrate?
A) Emotional intelligence
B) Digital communication
C) Photosynthesis
D) Kinematic self-replication
  • 39. What is the traditional approach of artificial intelligence compared to artificial life?
A) Bottom up
B) Middle out
C) Top down
D) Randomized
  • 40. How does artificial life generally work?
A) Using only hardware
B) From the top down
C) Exclusively through mathematical simulation
D) From the bottom up
  • 41. Who criticized artificial life in 1994 as 'fact-free science'?
A) Mario Bunge
B) Douglas Blackiston
C) John Maynard Smith
D) Sam Kriegman
  • 42. What did Mario Bunge criticize as part of his critique of computationalism?
A) Strong artificial life
B) Weak artificial life
C) Synthetic DNA research
D) Robotics
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