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Start AI Concepts and Foundations PracticeA company deploys an AI model to predict equipment failure. The model performs well on historical data but fails to generalize to new data from a different factory. Which concept best describes this issue?
Explanation: Option C (Overfitting) is correct because the model learned patterns specific to the historical data from the original factory, including noise and factory-specific nuances, rather than generalizable features. When applied to new data from a different factory, those learned patterns do not hold, causing poor performance. This is the classic symptom of overfitting: high accuracy on training data but low accuracy on unseen data.
A data scientist trains a linear regression model to predict house prices. The model has high bias and low variance. Which action would most likely reduce bias?
Explanation: High bias indicates the model is underfitting the data, meaning it is too simple to capture the underlying patterns. Adding polynomial features increases model complexity by introducing non-linear terms, which allows the linear regression model to better fit the training data and thus reduce bias.
An AI engineer trains a deep learning model for image classification. After training, the training accuracy is 99% but validation accuracy is 85%. Which technique would best address this discrepancy?
Explanation: The high training accuracy (99%) and lower validation accuracy (85%) indicate overfitting, where the model memorizes training data but fails to generalize. Dropout layers randomly deactivate neurons during training, forcing the network to learn more robust features and reducing overfitting. This technique directly addresses the discrepancy by improving validation performance without sacrificing training capacity.
A company implements a chatbot using a rule-based system. Users complain the chatbot cannot handle new queries. Which AI approach should be considered to improve flexibility?
Explanation: Machine learning (ML) enables a chatbot to learn from new data and adapt to unseen queries, unlike a static rule-based system. By training on historical conversations, an ML model can generalize patterns and handle novel inputs without requiring explicit rules for every scenario.
An AI model for detecting fraudulent transactions has high precision but low recall. Which business impact is most likely?
Explanation: High precision means that when the model flags a transaction as fraudulent, it is very likely correct. However, low recall indicates that the model misses a significant proportion of actual fraudulent transactions. Therefore, the most likely business impact is that many fraudulent transactions go undetected, leading to financial losses.
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