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Fundamentals of AI and ML

Fundamentals of AI and ML is 20% of the AWS Certified AI Practitioner (AIF-C01) exam. These are the objectives it covers, each with practice questions and worked explanations.

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A new analyst is learning how the terms artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning relate to one another as nested fields. Which two statements correctly describe this relationship? Select TWO.

  • AArtificial intelligence is one specialised technique that sits entirely inside the broader field of machine learning.
  • BMachine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence in which systems learn patterns from data rather than following hand-coded rules. Correct
  • CDeep learning and machine learning are two separate disciplines that share no methods and never overlap in practice.
  • DDeep learning is a subset of machine learning that uses neural networks with many stacked layers to learn features. Correct
  • EArtificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning are interchangeable synonyms for exactly the same single concept.
Deep learning sits inside machine learning, which in turn sits inside artificial intelligence, forming three nested fields of progressively narrower scope. The three terms form concentric sets: artificial intelligence is the broadest goal of machine intelligence, machine learning is the subset that learns from data, and deep learning is the further subset using many-layered neural networks. Correctly ordering this containment is the core terminology distinction.

Why A is wrong: This reverses the actual nesting; machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence, not the other way around, so the containment is backwards.

Why B is correct: Machine learning is correctly framed as a branch of the wider artificial intelligence field, defined by learning from data instead of explicit rules.

Why C is wrong: This is tempting because the names differ, but deep learning is a subset of machine learning, so the two clearly overlap rather than being separate.

Why D is correct: Deep learning is accurately placed inside machine learning and characterised by multi-layer neural networks that learn representations directly.

Why E is wrong: Treating the three as identical ignores their nesting; each names a progressively narrower field, so they are related but not interchangeable.

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