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

Ans: b

Explanation:

Artificial intelligence is a field of science concerned with building computers and machines that can reason, learn, and act in such a way that would normally require human intelligence or that involves data whose scale exceeds what humans can analyze. 

AI is a set of technologies that are based primarily on machine learning and deep learning, used for data analytics, predictions and forecasting, object categorization, natural language processing, recommendations, intelligent data retrieval, and more.

Applications and use cases for artificial intelligence

• Speech recognition: Automatically convert spoken speech into written text.
• Image recognition
• Translation: Translate written or spoken words from one language into another.
• Predictive modeling: Mine data to forecast specific outcomes with high degrees of granularity.
• Data analytics: Find patterns and relationships in data for business intelligence.
• Cybersecurity: Autonomously scan networks for cyber attacks and threats.
• Reduce emission: Reports predict that AI has the potential to help mitigate 5-10% of global GHG emissions by 2030
• Reduce energy demand: Computer chip maker Nvidia claims its new ‘superchip’ can deliver a 30 times performance improvement when running generative AI services, while using 25 times less energy.
• Artificial intelligence techniques ranging from machine learning to deep learning are prevalent in healthcare for disease diagnosis, drug discovery, and patient risk identification.

AI doesn’t have the ability to truly innovate or think creatively— it can only rearrange and analyze existing information. 

Hence, statement 2 is incorrect.

Wireless power transmission (WPT)

• It is the efficient transmission of electric power from one point to another through vacuum or an atmosphere without the use of wire or any other substance.
•  This can be used for applications where either an instantaneous amount or a continuous delivery of energy is needed, but where conventional wires are unaffordable, inconvenient, expensive, hazardous, unwanted or impossible. 
• The power can be transmitted using inductive coupling for short range, resonant induction for mid range and electromagnetic wave power transfer for high range. 
• One of the major drawbacks in current power distribution system is the losses during the transmission of electrical energy. As the demands of power are increasingconveniently, power generation also increases and this leads to increase power loss during transmission.
• So, AI is not used in wireless power transmission. Hence Statement 5 is incorrect.

Hence, only statement 1,3 and 4 are correct.

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