You Probably Know More About AI Than You Think
What started as a pop quiz turned into proof that intuition matters more than jargon.
You can know something without knowing you know it.
A few days ago, someone messaged me:
“Which of these is not a vision-related AI task?”
✅ Identify objects in images
✅ Classify images
✅ Facial recognition
❌ Repair damaged images
The answer was easy, but it sparked something.
We ran through more:
Which task is a Generative AI task?
Writing a poem based on a theme.
Not analyzing it. Not summarizing it.
Creating it.
Then:
Which one is speech AI?
✅ Speech-to-text.
Because speech AI isn’t language in general — it’s voice, waveform, audio-to-text.
Which one extracts trends from data?
✅ Unsupervised learning.
When the data is unlabeled, and the system starts noticing patterns on its own.
(And no, NLP isn’t a learning type. It’s a field.)
Which one powers self-driving cars?
✅ Reinforcement Learning.
Because a car doesn’t just know what to do.
It learns: Stay in lane → reward. Crash → penalty.
No one labels a million edge cases. It adapts.
There’s some confidence in realizing you already know the basics and understanding these aren’t just definitions.
They show how our tools are evolving and how our decisions need to evolve with them.
You don’t need to code to lead through this shift, but you do need to understand what’s possible.
And that understanding starts with questions like these.
Let me know if you want the full quiz. You might surprise yourself.