Here is Question No. 38 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2020.
Q38. With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following?
- Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units.
- Create meaningful short stories and songs.
- Disease diagnosis.
- Text-to-speech conversion.
- Wireless transmission of electrical energy.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 5 only
(b) 1, 3, and 4 only
(c) 2, 4, and 5 only
(d) 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
Answer: D
- Statement 1 is correct: Artificial Intelligence will be the brain of the future smart grid. The technology will continuously collect and synthesize overwhelming amounts of data from millions of sensors nationwide to make timely decisions on how to best allocate energy resources. It will help in bringing down electricity consumption in industrial units. Google is using the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) from its DeepMind acquisition to reduce energy consumption in its data centers by as much as 30%.
- Statement 2 is correct: To create meaningful short stories and songs using AI as a tool has been in practice for quite some time. David Bowie helped develop an app called the Verbasizer in the ‘90s, which took literary source material and randomly reordered the words to create new combinations that could be used as lyrics.
- Statement 3 is correct: Artificial Intelligence being used to diagnose various diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease early by reviewing brain scans. In Italy University of Bari and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare have developed new machine learning AI technology that helps identify Alzheimer’s a decade before doctors usually can, by way of non-invasive MRI brain scans.
- Statement 4 is correct: Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. It is a way to convert language to human voice (or speech). For example, Google’s Assistant, Amazon’s Echo, Apple’s Siri, etc.
- Statement 5 is correct: Wireless smart control, or smart off-grid, or wireless transmission of electrical energy is going to be what enables this big shift in the power industry. Big Data, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) will also have a material impact on the performance and capabilities of off-grid systems
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