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Start AI Concepts and Foundations PracticeA team is designing an AI system for autonomous driving. They need to decide between an end-to-end deep learning approach versus a modular pipeline (perception, planning, control). Which is a key advantage of the modular approach?
Explanation: The modular pipeline approach decomposes the autonomous driving task into distinct components (e.g., perception, planning, control), each of which can be independently developed, tested, and validated. This separation allows engineers to verify the correctness of each module against its own specification, which is critical for safety-critical systems like autonomous driving. In contrast, end-to-end deep learning models treat the entire system as a black box, making it difficult to isolate and validate individual behaviors.
A company uses an AI model to screen job applications. The model is trained on historical hiring data that reflects past biases. After deployment, the model disproportionately rejects candidates from certain demographics. Which concept does this best illustrate?
Explanation: Algorithmic bias refers to systematic and unfair discrimination in AI outputs due to biased training data or model design. Option A (overfitting) is about a model that performs well on training data but poorly on new data due to excessive complexity. Option B (model drift) is about performance degradation over time due to changes in data distribution. Option D (underfitting) is when a model is too simple to capture patterns.
A company wants to use AI to automatically categorize customer support tickets into topics like 'billing', 'technical', 'account'. They have 10,000 labeled examples. Which algorithm is most suitable for this task?
Explanation: Logistic regression is a supervised learning algorithm that models the probability of a categorical outcome based on input features. With 10,000 labeled examples, it can efficiently learn decision boundaries to classify tickets into 'billing', 'technical', or 'account' by using a softmax (multinomial logistic regression) extension for multi-class classification.
Refer to the exhibit. The training log shows loss and accuracy for a binary classification model. What is the most likely issue with this model?
Explanation: The training log shows that training loss continues to decrease while validation loss increases after a certain point, and training accuracy approaches 100% while validation accuracy plateaus or drops. This divergence is the classic signature of overfitting, where the model memorizes noise in the training data rather than learning generalizable patterns.
A retail company deploys a machine learning model to predict customer churn. The model outputs a probability between 0 and 1, and churn is predicted if probability > 0.5. After deployment, the model has a high false positive rate (many non-churning customers labeled as churn), which leads to unnecessary retention offers and increased costs. The data science team confirms the model was trained on historical data with a balanced class distribution. The business team wants to reduce false positives while maintaining a reasonable true positive rate. However, they cannot retrain the model because the original training data is no longer available. What is the best course of action to reduce false positives?
Explanation: Increasing the decision threshold to a higher value, such as 0.7, reduces false positives because the model will only predict churn when it is more confident. Since the model cannot be retrained, adjusting the threshold is the only way to trade off between precision and recall without modifying the model itself.
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