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WHAT WE DIDN’T Most people around the world will want to own
a Bot that looks, feels and acts like a real animal
KNOW ABOUT AI? but eliminates the need to clean and feed them.
Khushi, IX-A
Artificial Intelligence or AI as we call it has become
integral to the technology industry today. AI AI OR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
and related technologies aim at development of
intelligent and interactive machines and programs – OUR AIM FOR 2050
that can help complement the efforts of mankind.
AI has been integral to our daily lives and you would AI, Space exploration, a super power or perhaps?
be amazed to know a few facts about AI. We Indians really like to dream big and wish that
• The term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined our dreams would come true one day. Our former
in the year 1955, when John McCarthy first president Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam always believed
introduced it in the summer conference at that India will become a super power by 2020.
Dartmouth College. He is also known as the Though we realise, that this dream is still far from
"Father of Artificial Intelligence”. being achievable. India is still far from receiving the
much awaited “DEVELOPED NATION” title despite
• CAPTCHA that we see on most websites today significant advancements in its infrastructure
- a way to assess if the user is a human or a bot, and huge investments in science and technology.
is an extension of the Turing Test developed by No amounts of “Artificial Intelligence” or space
Sir Alan Turing in early 1950’s.
exploration programs can help India exit from the
• Most AI bots today are females- Siri, Alexa, “developing nation” consortium unless we focuses
Cortana, etc. The reason behind this gender on improving the basic social and economic
bias comes from the fact that female voice infrastructure of our economy.
tend to attract male/female attention better.
Today more than 264 billion Indians are inclined
• Though the stage has been set to enhance towards poverty. Millions of people suffer endlessly
productivity and cut business costs by because of lack of basic medical and hygiene
including AI into our systems, it is an awful facilities. For many despite the several initiatives
reality that AI would cut more than 6% of our under the “Swach Bharat Abhiyan”, toilet is a luxury.
jobs in 2021.
Our government reserves millions of rupees for
• Sophia- the famous humanoid has gained development in the fields of science and space
citizenship of Saudi Arabia. The debate and many more millions are budgeted for social
regarding granting nationalities and passports development, but does that sum actually reach
to similar bots has become a reality already.
the masses. I don’t believe that science and
• Google has integrated its AI platform with technology are not important but are we really
GMAIL to help prevent unwanted spam and using science as a tool to upgrade our lives. The
malware from unnecessarily cluttering your huge sums of money spent in technological
mailboxes. prototyping can benefit the less privileged only if
• 2025- might just be the year of the “Pet Bots”. the areas of development are carefully chosen.

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