Unless you’ve spent the last several months being raised with wolves, you’ve heard of ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that’s been driving terror and delight in the hearts of mortals everywhere. People are using it for everything from writing college essays and marketing headlines to stringing together developer code and solving tricky math problems. But will its increasingly sophisticated AI wipe out civilization as we know it? Do we need to shut it all downshut it all down until we know more, as many tech giants have been recommending? Turns out that just like most things, there’s a yin and yang to ChatGPT. Use it for good, and it can be an incredible tool for your business. Use it for evil, and, well….
For example, we asked ChatGPT about how ChatGPT can be used in the manufacturing business, and we learned a lot. Here’s a quick summary of our conversation.
Us: How can Chat GPT be used in manufacturing?
Chat GPT: Overall, Chat GPT can be a valuable tool for manufacturers looking to improve quality, reduce costs and increase efficiencies. As an AI language model, ChatGPT can assist in various manufacturing-related tasks:
- Quality control: ChatGPT can be trained to predict manufacturing defects or identify areas for improvement
- Supply chain optimization: ChatGPT can be used to analyze and optimize supply chain logistics (e.g., inventory levels, shipping times) to identify cost savings and process improvements
- Predictive maintenance: ChatGPT can be used it to identify patterns that happen before a breakdown occurs
- Process automation: Chat GPT can be used to automate repetitive tasks
- Employee training: ChatGPT can be used to provide training and guidance by answering questions and offering real-time feedback
Us: What challenges does using ChatGPT present to manufacturing?
ChatGPT: While ChatGPT can be a valuable tool for manufacturing, there are also some challenges associated with using this technology:
- Data quality: One of the biggest challenges is ensuring the data used to train the model is of high quality (e.g. not incomplete or inaccurate).
- Integration: It may require significant changes to IT infrastructure to integrate ChatGPT into exiting processes and systems
- Data privacy and security: We’ll need to ensure that ChatGPT is trained on secure data and not leaking trade secrets or customer information
- Bias: ChatGPT, like any machine learning model, is only as unbiased as the data it is trained on
- Cost: It may be cost-prohibitive to implement ChatGPT into existing infrastructure if specialized expertise is required to develop and train the model
While you can use Chat GPT 3 (the free version) or upgrade to Chat GPT-4 or Plus as a paid subscription, everyone’s already anticipating GPT-5, which some are suggesting will have the ability to achieve AGI. What is AGI? It’s the concept of “artificial general intelligence” that could make it indistinguishable from a human in its capabilities.
Wait. Is there real a human being behind the writing of this blog post? Should we ask ChatGPT?