UPSC CSE Prelims
Question 71
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
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Correct answer: B
Correct Option: B (1, 3, and 4 on1y)
Explanation: As framed in the 2020 answer, AI could optimise energy consumption, assist medical diagnosis and convert text to speech. The key excluded dependable original “meaningful” creative output, and wireless electricity transfer is a physical power-transmission technology.
Statement / Pair / Item-wise Analysis:
1. Correct - AI optimisation can reduce waste and electricity use in factories.
2. Incorrect - The exam key did not accept reliable meaningful creative writing/song composition as an established AI ability in the 2020 formulation.
3. Correct - Machine learning can assist disease classification and medical diagnosis.
4. Correct - AI speech synthesis can convert text to spoken audio.
5. Incorrect - Wireless energy transfer uses electromagnetic induction or related physics, not AI itself.
Option-wise Analysis:
A. Incorrect-includes incorrect item 2 (The exam key did not accept reliable meaningful creative writing/song composition as an established AI ability in the 2020 formulation); includes incorrect item 5 (Wireless energy transfer uses electromagnetic induction or related physics, not AI itself); omits correct item 4 (AI speech synthesis can convert text to spoken audio).
B. Correct-includes all and only valid statements/items 1, 3, 4.
C. Incorrect-includes incorrect item 2 (The exam key did not accept reliable meaningful creative writing/song composition as an established AI ability in the 2020 formulation); includes incorrect item 5 (Wireless energy transfer uses electromagnetic induction or related physics, not AI itself); omits correct item 1 (AI optimisation can reduce waste and electricity use in factories); omits correct item 3 (Machine learning can assist disease classification and medical diagnosis).
D. Incorrect-includes incorrect item 2 (The exam key did not accept reliable meaningful creative writing/song composition as an established AI ability in the 2020 formulation); includes incorrect item 5 (Wireless energy transfer uses electromagnetic induction or related physics, not AI itself).
Review note: Dated interpretation: generative AI today can write coherent short fiction and songs, and AI-assisted creative generation existed in 2020; item 2 is contestable. Source key B preserved.