1. What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
2. How do experts believe AI will change our lives?
3. When did the development of AI begin, and what was the vision of its pioneers?
4. What was the first AI program able to do?
5. Who developed the first chatbot, and what was it designed to do?
6. Why did research funding for AI decrease in the 1970s?
7. What practical applications of AI emerged in the early 1980s?
8. Which country made a name for itself in application-oriented AI research, particularly in speech comprehension, imaging processing, and robotics?
9. What technological advancements have contributed to the recent boom in AI?
10. What are some potential benefits and drawbacks of AI, according to the text?
