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Politecnico di Milano School of Industrial and Information Engineering Foundations of Artificial Intelligence February 17, 2022 Prof. Francesco Amigoni & Pierluca Lanzi GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS • This is a closed-book/closed-notes exam. • Pencils are not allowed. • Answers must be written inside the answer boxes designated for each problem. • Answers must be legible and adequately motivated. • The exam must be returned with all its original sheets. • No sheet can be added. • None of the sheets can be removed. • Only non-programmable calculators are allowed. • Notes/books/mobile phones are not allowed. • If a student is caught using forbidden material, the exam will immediately end, and the disciplinary committee will be notified. SCORING • A problem left unsolved will amount to zero points. • Completely wrong answers assign negative points. STUDENTS HAVE 1:30h TO SOLVE ALL THE PROBLEMS SURNAME FIRST NAME CODICE PERSONA/ID SIGN BELOW TO WITHDRAW GRADES Artificial Intelligence (3 points). You are the chief technical officer (CTO) of a startup specializing in artificial intelligence. You are presenting your company to prospective investors. You start with a basic introduction to artificial intelligence and explain the techniques you learned during this course. At the end of your introduction, an investor raises her hand and asks: “From what you presented, artificial intelligence looks like just algorithms and data structures. Thus, in the end, it is not any different than traditional software engineering, matrix multiplication, etc. Where is the intelligence then?” Answer the investor question using at most three short statements: 1) 2) 3) There are two main points that we should stress in our answer to the investor. Firstly, we should specify the definition of artificial…