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Prelims 2020 · Q38 · Computing, AI & blockchain

With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following ?

  1. 1.Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units
  2. 2.Create meaningful short stories and songs
  3. 3.Disease diagnosis
  4. 4.Text-to-Speech Conversion
  5. 5.Wireless transmission of electrical energy

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Answer: B. As of 2020, AI was used effectively to cut energy use in industrial units (for example data-centre cooling), to help diagnose disease from scans, and for text-to-speech. Creating meaningful stories and songs was not considered reliable at that time, and wireless power transfer is a physics technology, not AI. So 1, 3 and 4.

Watch for: Wireless power sounds 'smart', but it is a physics technology unrelated to AI.

Why the other options are wrong
  • A. Wrong because wireless power transfer is not done by AI.
  • C. Wrong because wireless power is not AI and energy use and diagnosis are clear AI uses.
  • D. Wrong because wireless power transfer is not an AI task.

Source to check: NITI Aayog, National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (2018)

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