[ CBSE CLASS 6 / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE / CHAPTER 1 / 2026-27 ]
Class 6 AI: Introduction to AI – Questions and Answers
The Class 6 Introduction to AI chapter explains that artificial intelligence lets computers do tasks that usually need human thinking, such as recognising faces or understanding speech, by learning patterns from data. Students learn to tell AI apart from simple automation and to spot AI in everyday life.
[ WORKED EXAMPLE ]
Which of these uses AI?
Answer: A phone that unlocks when it recognises your face.
- A calculator and a switch follow fixed rules.
- A timetable does not compute anything.
- Face unlock compares your face with patterns it learned, so it uses AI.
What this chapter is about
Students learn what AI is, where they already meet it (face unlock, voice assistants, video suggestions, maps) and what it cannot do.
A key distinction is AI versus automation: automation follows fixed steps; AI learns patterns from examples and can handle new cases.
Students meet AI domains by name: computer vision (seeing), natural language processing (language) and data-based prediction.
[ HANDS-ON ACTIVITY ]
Sort it: AI or automation?
Tap a device, then tap where it belongs. AI learns patterns from data; automation repeats fixed steps.
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Where does “Phone face unlock” belong?
[ PRACTICE MODE / 6 QUESTIONS ]
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Which of these uses AI?
All Introduction to AI questions with answers
Try each one first, then open it to check the answer and the reasoning.
Q1Which of these uses AI?
- A calculator adding two numbers
- A phone that unlocks when it recognises your face
- A light switch
- A printed school timetable
Answer: B. A phone that unlocks when it recognises your face
Hint: Which one has to recognise something it has learned, rather than follow one fixed rule?
- A calculator and a switch follow fixed rules.
- A timetable does not compute anything.
- Face unlock compares your face with patterns it learned, so it uses AI.
Skill: Abstraction · Level: easy · Report an error
Q2A washing machine runs the same 40-minute cycle every time you press start. What is this an example of?
- Automation following fixed steps
- AI learning from data
- A robot with feelings
- Natural language processing
Answer: A. Automation following fixed steps
Hint: Does the machine change what it does based on examples?
- The machine repeats the same programmed steps every time.
- It does not learn or adapt from data.
- That is automation, not AI.
Skill: Abstraction · Level: medium · Report an error
Q3How does a voice assistant learn to understand speech?
- It learns patterns from many recordings of people speaking
- It reads your mind
- Someone types every possible sentence into it
- It guesses randomly
Answer: A. It learns patterns from many recordings of people speaking
Hint: AI learns from lots of examples.
- Developers train the system on large sets of speech recordings.
- It learns which sounds usually match which words.
- Then it uses those patterns on new speech, sometimes making mistakes.
Skill: Pattern recognition · Level: easy · Report an error
Q4Which of these can today’s AI NOT do?
- Suggest the next word as you type
- Recognise objects in a photo
- Feel happy or sad the way a person does
- Translate a sentence into Hindi
Answer: C. Feel happy or sad the way a person does
Hint: Think about the difference between processing patterns and having feelings.
- Suggesting words, recognising objects and translating are pattern tasks AI can do.
- AI can produce words about feelings, but it does not experience them.
- So AI cannot feel happy or sad like a person.
Skill: Abstraction · Level: medium · Report an error
Q5What does “machine learning” mean?
- A machine that learns patterns from data instead of being given every rule
- A machine that goes to school
- Any machine with a screen
- A machine that never makes mistakes
Answer: A. A machine that learns patterns from data instead of being given every rule
Hint: Focus on where the rules come from.
- In normal programs, people write every rule.
- In machine learning, the computer finds patterns in examples.
- It then uses those patterns to make predictions, which can still be wrong.
Skill: Abstraction · Level: medium · Report an error
Q6Recognising objects in photos belongs to which area of AI?
- Computer vision
- Natural language processing
- Spreadsheets
- Word processing
Answer: A. Computer vision
Hint: Which area is about “seeing”?
- Computer vision helps computers understand images and video.
- Natural language processing is about text and speech.
- Recognising objects in photos is computer vision.
Skill: Pattern recognition · Level: easy · Report an error
Frequently asked questions
What does the Class 6 Introduction to AI AI chapter cover?
The Class 6 Introduction to AI chapter explains that artificial intelligence lets computers do tasks that usually need human thinking, such as recognising faces or understanding speech, by learning patterns from data. Students learn to tell AI apart from simple automation and to spot AI in everyday life.
Which computational thinking skills does Introduction to AI use?
Introduction to AI mainly practises abstraction, pattern recognition. It links to Part 2: Artificial Intelligence.
Where are the official CBSE Introduction to AI questions?
The official questions are in the CBSE Class 6 Computational Thinking and AI handbook for 2026-27, free on the CBSE Academic website. The practice on this page is original and mapped to the same chapter.