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UPSC CURRENT AFFAIRS | CAN THE NEW GOOGLE CHATBOT BE SENTIENT | 17TH JUNE | THE HINDU

/ June, 2022, UPSC Daily Current Affairs

SYLLABUS SECTION: GS III (Science and Technology)

WHY IN THE NEWS?

Google’s advanced conversational agent called Language Model for Dialogue Applications (LaMDA) has a neural network making it capable of deep learning in the new google chatbot sentient.

LANGUAGE MODEL FOR DIALOGUE APPLICATIONS (LaMDA)

  • ‘Language Model for Dialogue Applications’, is Google’s advance conversational agent with a neural network capable of deep learning.
  • LaMDA is a non-goal-directed chatbot that dialogues on various subjects.
  • It has the potential to revolutionize customer interaction and AI-enabled internet searches.
  • LaMDA relies on pattern recognition, not empathy, wit, candor, or intent.

NEURAL NETWORK

  • A neural network is an AI tech that attempts to mimic the web of neurons in the brain to learn and behave like humans.
  • The artificial neural network (ANN)requires training as a pet dog prior to being commanded.
  • With access to big data and a powerful processor,
  • It is enough for emerging deep learning software to do impossible-looking tasks.
LaMDA VS OTHER CHATBOTS

Chatbots like ‘Ask Disha’ of the IRCTC, routinely used for customer engagement,

They have a repertoire of topics, and chat responses are narrow.

The conversations are predefine and mostly goal-directed.

Related Facts:

·         Turing was the pioneer of the world’s first computer, ENIGMA, which broke the German codes during the Second World War.

The first chatbots

·         Joseph Weizenbaum of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory built ELIZA with which we could chat with the new google chatbot.

·         Linguist George Kingsley Zipf improved ALICE’s response repertoire by analyzing user chats, making the fake conversions look real in the 1930s.

 

 

 

ISSUES WITH THE AI TECHNOLOGY
  • Unethical AI carrying historical bias further and enabling easy hate speeches are the real dangers.
  • Recently Google fired Timnit Gebru over her warnings on their unethical AI and now this development rightly caused ripples in social media.
  • ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity) was developed by Richard Wallace, capable of simulating human interactions.
  • The issue of equity and equality in future benefit programs may put women and marginalized communities in the discriminated arena.
  • AI tech learning from historical data may inadvertently perpetuate discrimination let alone the issue of bias which we are ignoring.
  • While making progress in these fields we need to balance the human-machine interface to save ourselves from falling prey to this necessary evil of the modern age.

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Source: The Hindu