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UPSC CSE Prelims 2020 · GS Paper I · Question 38 · IT, computing & emerging technologies

विकास की वर्तमान स्थिति में, कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता (Artificial Intelligence), निम्नलिखित में से किस…

UPSC Civil Services (Preliminary) Examination 2020, General Studies Paper I, Question 38 — IT, computing & emerging technologies.

Prelims 2020 · Q38

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विकास की वर्तमान स्थिति में, कृत्रिम बुद्धिमत्ता (Artificial Intelligence), निम्नलिखित में से किस कार्य को प्रभावी रूप से कर सकती है ?

  1. 1.औद्योगिक इकाइयों में विद्युत् की खपत कम करना
  2. 2.सार्थक लघु कहानियों और गीतों की रचना
  3. 3.रोगों का निदान
  4. 4.टेक्स्ट से स्पीच (Text-to-Speech) में परिवर्तन
  5. 5.विद्युत् ऊर्जा का बेतार संचरण

नीचे दिए गए कूट का प्रयोग कर सही उत्तर चुनिए :

Read this question in English

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

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

उत्तर और व्याख्या · explanation in English

Answer: (b) केवल 1, 3 और 4

In the exam year AI was already used effectively for saving energy in industry, for diagnosing diseases and for converting text into speech. It could not reliably write meaningful stories or songs, and sending electrical energy wirelessly is a physics and engineering method, not something AI does.

  • ✓ 1. AI models forecast and optimise energy use, raising efficiency in how power is balanced and used, including in factories.
  • ✗ 2. UPSC's key treats this as beyond the effective ability of AI in 2020: machines could not reliably produce meaningful short stories and songs.
  • ✓ 3. AI-driven diagnostics and imaging diagnostics are among the standard healthcare uses of AI.
  • ✓ 4. Text-to-speech, along with speech-to-text, is a routine AI application in voice assistants and accessibility tools.
  • ✗ 5. Wireless power transfer works through electromagnetic coupling. AI may help control such a system, but it does not transmit the energy.
  • • Since then Since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022, generative AI tools can produce text, images, videos and music, so statement 2 would be judged differently today (UNESCO).

Remember · In 2020, AI = optimising energy, diagnosing disease, text-to-speech; not meaningful creative writing, and never wireless power transfer.

Sources

Question and answer: UPSC's official GS Paper I (2020, Series A) — paper ↗ · answer key ↗. Explanation: Minimalist IAS, checked 30 Sept 2026 (how we verify). ·

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