IBPS PO 2020 · Question 51 of 99

Read the passage and answer the questions given below. Some words may be highlighted. Read carefully. The purpose of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is to aid human capabilities and help us make advanced decisions with far-reaching consequences. That's the answer from a technical standpoint. From a philosophical perspective, Artificial Intelligence has the potential to help humans live more meaningful lives devoid of hard labour, and help manage the complex web of interconnected individuals, companies, states, and nations to function in a manner that's beneficial to all of humanity. Currently, the purpose of Artificial Intelligence is shared by all the different tools and techniques that we've invented over the past thousand years – to simplify human effort, and to help us make better decisions. Artificial Intelligence has also been touted as our Final Invention, a creation that would invent ground-breaking tools and services that would exponentially change how we lead our lives, by hopefully removing strife, inequality, and human suffering. That's all in the far future though – we're still a long way from those kinds of outcomes. Currently, Artificial Intelligence is being used mostly by companies to improve their process efficiencies, automate resource-heavy tasks, and to make business predictions based on hard data rather than gut feelings. As all technology that has come before this, the research and development costs need to be subsidized by corporations and government agencies before it becomes accessible to everyday laymen. The purpose of philosophy for humans is to help us understand our actions, their consequences, and how we can make better decisions. Modern intelligent systems can be built by following the different approaches of philosophy that will enable these systems to make the right decisions, mirroring the way that an ideal human being would think and behave. Philosophy would help these machines think and understand about the nature of knowledge itself. It would also help them make the connection between knowledge and action through goal-based analysis to achieve desirable outcomes. If there is a synergy between man and machine, if they are able to work fully in tandem, this world will undergo a sea change and our everyday lives would be completely transformed. What is the purpose of AI?

Reading Comprehension

1. ATo aid human capabilities
2. BTo make advanced decisions with far-reaching consequences
3. CTo completely remove manual interaction
4. DTo make better decisions and simplify human effort
5. E1, 2 and 4Correct