AI Landscape Quiz: Do You Know the Models That Matter?

Which Gemini feature most directly reduces hallucination on questions about recent events?

Gemini's large context window Gemini Flash's lower latency Gemini's fine-tuning on Google's proprietary dataset Google Search grounding — responses can be anchored to live Search results

A sales team writes a different prompt every time they need to generate a follow-up email after a meeting. What is the highest-leverage improvement?

Only the most senior team members should use AI — it causes quality variance Switch to a more powerful AI model Each salesperson should develop their own unique prompting style Create a reusable prompt template with clearly marked variables for meeting date, client name, key discussion points, and next steps

A small business wants to use AI for drafting responses to customer complaints that include customer names and order details. What is the simplest way to reduce privacy risk while still using AI?

Anonymize the data — replace the customer name with 'Customer' and describe the order generically — before sending to the AI tool Use AI only on Tuesdays when server load is lower and data is more secure Never use AI for any customer-related communications Ask the AI not to store the customer's name after the session

A small law firm uses an AI document tool that stores all case materials. They are considering switching providers. What vendor-related risk should they have addressed during onboarding?

Whether the AI was trained on legal documents Whether the existing provider offers referral discounts Whether the new provider offers a lower price Whether case documents can be exported in standard formats — allowing migration without data loss if they switch providers

Which of these vendor claims is a RED FLAG suggesting a tool may not have meaningful AI capability?

'AI-powered' prominently featured in marketing but no specific explanation of what the AI does in the product The tool requires a free trial signup before showing pricing The tool integrates with Zapier The vendor has raised venture capital funding

A company wants to connect an AI assistant to its private internal knowledge base so it can answer employee questions. Which technique is most relevant?

Fine-tuning the foundation model from scratch Building a new foundation model Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Switching to an open-source model

Which prompting technique best helps a professional use AI to identify blind spots in their own analysis?

Ask AI to score the analysis out of 10 Ask AI to summarize the analysis back in its own words Ask AI to write a better version of the analysis Ask AI to list the critical assumptions the analysis relies on, then ask what would happen if those assumptions were wrong

Which layer of the AI stack contains products like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Perplexity?

The API and platform layer The training data layer The foundation model layer The application layer

A small business owner is considering three AI marketing tools, all with similar feature sets. Which evaluation question is MOST important for long-term cost management?

Which tool was most recently founded? Which tool has the most integrations in their marketplace? What is the pricing at the volume I'll be using? (Many tools have low entry prices that become expensive at scale) Which tool has the best-designed user interface?

A manager asks an AI to recommend which of two job candidates to hire. What is the correct role for AI in this decision?

AI can make the recommendation, but a human must type it into the HR system AI can make the final hiring decision based on the resume data provided AI is too risky to use in any hiring process AI can help structure the evaluation criteria and surface considerations, but the hiring decision should be made by the human hiring manager