{"id":217181,"date":"2022-12-05T20:22:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=217181"},"modified":"2022-12-05T20:22:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:52:41","slug":"emerging-ai-what-awaits-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/emerging-ai-what-awaits-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging AI: What awaits us?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201cEmerging AI: What awaits us?\u201d <\/strong>published in the <b>Business Standard <\/b>on\u00a0<strong>5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus<\/strong>: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: About the lessons from the chemical revolution to the AI revolution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The chemical revolution started in a small way in the late 18th century, and rose to a peak in the 1960s.<\/p>\n<h5>What are the key developments of the chemical revolution?<\/h5>\n<p>-Synthetic <strong>chemical fertilisers and pesticides<\/strong> came into force in the early 1900s and helped increase food output dramatically and thus served to prevent starvation.<\/p>\n<p>-In the early 20th century, <strong>synthetic chemical drugs<\/strong> such as penicillin, and vaccines against measles, mumps, chickenpox, rubella, and hepatitis saved the world from a wide variety of diseases.<\/p>\n<p>-Innovation around the properties of combustion of gases led to the invention of the <strong>internal combustion engine<\/strong> and thus the birth of motorised vehicles like cars.<\/p>\n<p>-In the 1960s <strong>chiffon sarees<\/strong> made from polyester or nylon became the rage in India.<\/p>\n<p>-The spread of chemical technology was a <strong>boom to the manufacturers<\/strong> of toothpaste and washing soaps and liquids and such conveniences of day-to-day life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>Creative advertising<\/strong> led to the sale of \u201ccommoditised\u201d products of the chemical revolution.<\/p>\n<h5>What are the impacts of the chemical revolution?<\/h5>\n<p><strong>a)<\/strong> The availability of chemical technology was so widespread that <strong>manufacturers were unable to differentiate<\/strong> their products on real physical features<\/p>\n<p><strong>b)<\/strong> The chemical revolution slowly faded away to such an extent that <strong>anything \u201cplastic\u201d has become synonymous with \u201cpollution\u201d<\/strong>. Thus, demands are made that only \u201crecyclable\u201d plastics be used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>c)<\/strong> The synthetic cloths impacted the cotton textile spinning and weaving mills and <strong>created a job loss<\/strong>. In Bombay alone, over 100 cotton textile mills shut down.<\/p>\n<h5>What one can learn from the chemical revolution to the emerging AI revolution?<\/h5>\n<p>India needs to analyse <strong>a)<\/strong> New industries AI will create and current industries AI will demolish, <strong>b)<\/strong> Jobs AI market will create and job loss it will reduce, <strong>c)<\/strong> Thoughtful policy initiatives for promoting the use of AI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cEmerging AI: What awaits us?\u201d published in the Business Standard on\u00a05th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS \u2013 3 \u2013 Science and Technology. Relevance: About the lessons from the chemical revolution to the AI revolution. News: The chemical revolution started in a small way in the late 18th century, and rose&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/emerging-ai-what-awaits-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emerging AI: What awaits us?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,216],"class_list":["post-217181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704901710},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}