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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 48 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This is a good example of how AI can be used well.

Current AIs are effectively fuzzy pattern detection and matching engines. This one can sift all the data coming in, and spot patterns that previously corresponded to problems. It then flags them for human interpretation.

The AI chunks the vast sea of data. A human is then involved to sanity check what it has found, and react accordingly. E.g. a pattern appears that often precedes a broken rail within a month. A human can check the subset of the data, and schedule a maintenance team a week later. Conversely, a pattern that leads by hours would require an immediate response.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Exactly this. The number of fields machine learning breakthroughs can be applied in, just for processing huge collections of unstructured data, is truly mindboggling. We're in for an interesting ride!

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Salesforce has been selling this exact service for ~8 years now. Its old tech.

It's their Wave Analytics package.

[–] kugel7c@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Also some application of similar tech has worked itself into industrial machines and factories over the last 10 years or so, it's downright ubiquitous for anything that's expensive and requires maintenance/ upkeep. Also it's well intertwined with the ML tech we see consumer facing nowadays, the image recognition of 4+ years ago was made to recognize issues with materials, unexpected growing patterns, anomalies, as well as recognition and counting etc.. before we got just point your camera and it'll tell you what you're looking at.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But how did China do this when we banned the sale of nvidia gpus to China?

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nvidia GPUs aren't the only way to run a machine learning type system. They are just the easiest to use, currently. China has also been developing their own AI optimised chips. Though I don't know much/anything about them.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure the other commentor was being sarcastic.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I still want to know