The Hindu Editorial Analysis : 3rd June 2023

03/06/2023

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The Hindu Editorial Analysis

The Importance of Reading The Hindu Editorial: Reading The Hindu newspaper has several benefits, including improving reading skills, facilitating comprehension, staying informed of current events, enhancing essay writing, and more. For individuals aiming for a career in banking, reading editorials is crucial for vocabulary building. In this article, we will examine today’s editorials, provide practice questions, and highlight important vocabulary words.

Good or bad.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is Al that can create new data. There are many instances of generative Al in the world today, most commonly used to generate text, images, and code in response to users’ requests, even if they are capable of more.
Their widespread adoption really embellished their capabilities, leading to awe, then worry. OpenAl’s ChatGPT chatbot mimics intelligence very well; today, it has become synonymous with the abilities of generative Al at large.
In the last few years, Al models backed by neural networks trained on very large datasets and with access to sufficient computing power have been used to do good, such as finding new antibiotics and alloys, for clever entertainment and cultural activities, and for many banal tasks, but it has caught attention most notably with its ability to falsify data.
The world is past being able to reliably differentiate between data that faithfully reflects reality and data made to look that way by bad-faith actors using Al.
This and other developments led a prominent group of Al pioneers to draft a single-sentence, and alarmist, statement: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from Al should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.
Dishonest actors wielding Al are one of many threats, but the statement is too simple to admit the complexity of human society.
Some specific concerns enumerated in othercommuniqués are worth taking seriously, however: the inscrutability of the inner workings of Al models, their use of copyrighted data, regard for human dignity and privacy, and protections from falsifying information.
The models being developed and used today are not mandated to tick these boxes, even as there is no way to understand the risks they pose.
So, even at a point when the computational resources required to run Al models in full coincide with that available in consumer electronics, the world will need at least rolling policies that keep the door open for democratic institutions to slam the brakes on dangerous enterprises.
At this time, the Indian government should proactively launch and maintain an open-source Al risk profile, set up sandboxed R&D environments to test potentially high- risk Al models, promote the development of explainable Al, define scenarios of intervention, and keep a watchful eye.
Inaction is just not an option: apart from the possibility of adverse consequences, it could render India missing the ‘harnessing All for good’ bus.

Practice Questions:

How does Al models backed by neural networks?
How does widespread adoption really embellish AI capabilities?

Important Vocabs:

Debilitate– to make somebody’s body or mind weaker
Reiterate– to repeat an opinion, statement, etc
Emblematic– serving as a symbol of a particular quality or concept;
Etched– made by or subjected to etching.
Shackle– one of a pair of metal rings connected with a chain put around a prisoner’s wrists or ankles
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