Can AI Answer "What's the Meaning Of Life"? - Analytics India Magazine

With artificial intelligence maturing in the current era, it is gaining immense potential in becoming a key technology for practical applications. Although the technology has displayed expertise in coming up with answers to business queries with accuracy, it often struggles to answer questions that are abstract in nature. In fact, even these conversation AI bots like Alexa and Siri are advanced in managing our schedule but if asked obscure existential questions like "meaning of life," it will only provide you with either a hilarious response or a sarcastic joke. However, as artificial intelligence is evolving with advancements in natural language processing, speech recognition and automated reasoning, the technology can now answer some of the tough life questions asked by humans. To test the theory, researchers from the University of New South Wales asked some moral and existential questions to Salesforce's Conditional Transformer Language model to check if the AI is capable of answering some fundamental questions of life.