UPSC Previous Year Question | Prelims GS | 2020

With the present state of development, Artificial Intelligence can effectively do which of the following? 1. Bring down electricity consumption in industrial units 2. Create meaningful short stories and songs 3. Disease diagnosis 4. Text-to-Speech Conversion 5. Wireless transmission of electrical energy

  1. 1, 2, 3 and 5 only
  2. 1, 3 and 4 only
  3. 2, 4 and 5 only
  4. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Answer

Correct Answer

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5

Explanation

The key treats all five as feasible AI applications: energy optimisation in industry, generating short stories and songs, disease diagnosis from medical data, text-to-speech, and AI-assisted (predictive) control in wireless power transfer. This was a debated item, and UPSC's key retained (d).

Topics: applications of ai, artificial intelligence, information technology & computing, science & technology