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When someone tells AI a joke… and it totally doesn’t get it.

What Are the Limitations of Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence is popping up everywhere — from voice assistants to chatbots and even self-driving cars. But have you ever wondered what AI can’t do? This quiz is designed for curious 14 to 17-year-olds who want to explore the real limits of AI in a fun and easy-to-understand way. You’ll discover where AI struggles, what tasks it still needs humans for, and why it’s not quite ready to take over the world (or your homework!) just yet.

Get ready to challenge what you know, learn surprising facts, and maybe even laugh at some of the funny ways AI misses the mark. Let’s dive in and see how much you really know about the limits of artificial intelligence!

1 .
Why can’t AI truly understand human emotions?
Because it doesn’t have feelings or personal experiences
Because it’s too busy doing math all day
Because it hasn’t watched enough romantic movies
Because it prefers facts over feelings
AI can recognise words or facial expressions, but it doesn’t actually feel emotions — it lacks personal experiences, memories, or a human perspective.
2 .
What’s something AI struggles with when solving problems?
Doing calculations quickly
Following clear instructions
Thinking creatively or outside the box
Processing lots of data
AI is great at following set patterns and rules, but it can’t “think creatively” or come up with new, original ideas like humans can — it sticks to what it’s programmed for.
3 .
Why can’t AI always tell if information it finds is true?
Because it doesn’t like to read
Because it can’t tell fact from fiction
Because it only reads headlines
Because it gets distracted by cat videos
AI can gather lots of information, but it doesn’t have the judgment to know what’s true or false — it just processes whatever data it’s given.
4 .
What’s one thing AI can’t understand like a human?
How to use a calculator
How to follow step-by-step instructions
How to sort photos by colour
The meaning behind jokes or sarcasm
AI can recognise words and patterns, but it struggles to understand humour, sarcasm, or deeper meanings because it doesn’t share human experiences or context.
5 .
Why do AI systems sometimes give strange or wrong answers?
Because they only know what they’ve been trained on
Because they get bored and make things up
Because they want to confuse humans
Because they’re testing if you’re paying attention
AI can only work with the data and examples it has been trained on. If it hasn’t seen something before, it might make mistakes or give odd answers.
6 .
What’s one reason AI can’t replace human teachers?
It can’t show videos or slides
It refuses to help with homework
It lacks real-life experience and empathy
It only teaches maths and nothing else
AI can provide facts or explanations, but human teachers bring life experience, understanding, and empathy — things that make learning meaningful and personal.
7 .
Why is AI not always fair or unbiased?
Because it wants to pick favourites
Because it can learn human biases from its data
Because it likes to stir up drama
Because it works better at night
AI systems can pick up human biases from the data they’re trained on — that’s why people need to check and guide how AI is used carefully.
8 .
Why can’t AI systems make moral or ethical decisions on their own?
Because they hate being judged
Because they’re too focused on facts
Because they only understand numbers
Because they don’t have a sense of right and wrong
AI doesn’t have feelings, beliefs, or moral understanding — it needs human guidance to handle decisions that involve fairness, kindness, or ethics.
9 .
Why can’t AI systems fix themselves when they go wrong?
Because they need human programmers to adjust them
Because they’re too stubborn to change
Because they can’t see their own mistakes
Because they don’t believe in self-improvement
When AI makes mistakes or needs updating, human programmers step in — AI can’t fix its own code or systems without help.
10 .
Why can’t AI always understand the full meaning of what we say?
Because it’s not paying attention
Because it only listens when it wants to
Because it focuses on words, not context
Because it’s busy answering someone else
AI can recognise words and phrases, but it often misses the bigger context or subtle meaning behind them — that’s something humans are much better at handling.
Author:  Tara Kemp

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