SNIPPETS 06 JULY 2026

AI hallucination: These are incorrect or misleading results that AI models generate+ It perceives patterns or objects that are non-existent or imperceptible to human observers, creating outputs that are nonsensical or altogether inaccurate+ E.g., Google’s Bard chatbot incorrectly claimed that the James Webb Space Telescope had captured the world’s first images of a planet outside our solar system+ Factors responsible are insufficient training data, incorrect assumptions made by the model, or biases in the data used to train the model.

Zoological Survey of India (ZSI): It is India's premier institution for survey, exploration, taxonomy, documentation, and conservation of the country's faunal diversity+ Established in 1916+ It functions under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change+ Key Objectives: Maintenance & Development of National Zoological Collections+ Periodic review of the Status of Threatened and Endemic species, etc+ HQ: Kolkata and has 16 regional centers spread across the country.

Mount Erebus: Location: Ross Island in the Ross Sea, Antarctica+ Key features: It is the world's southernmost active volcano+ It has a permanent lava lake+ It is a stratovolcano and is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire that encircles the Pacific Ocean basin.