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

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?

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? Which tool was most recently founded? Which tool has the most integrations in their marketplace?

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

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?

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

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?

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

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