Truck & Off-Highway Engineering - October 2024 - 4

TECHNICAL
INNOVATIONS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Navigating the future of AI in the CV industry
SAE INTERNATIONAL
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Carla Bailo
President
Robert Ireland
2025 President
Todd Zarfos
2023 President
Christopher Payne
Vice President - Aerospace
Daniel Nicholson
Vice President - Automotive
Audley Brown
Vice President -
Commercial Vehicle
David Andrea
Treasurer
Gregory L. Bradley, Esq.
Secretary
Volvo's autonomous, battery-electric LX03 is a " self-learning " wheel loader concept that can make decisions,
perform tasks and interact with humans.
Every fall, SAE International's COMVEC symposium
brings leaders from the on-highway, offhighway
and defense sectors together to collaborate
on solutions for the macro and micro challenges
within the commercial vehicle industry.
One of the executive panels at this year's conference
tackled the intricacies of AI's effects both
present and future on the industry and how various
OEMs are approaching its implementation.
" There's a lot of things going on in the industry
that really aren't getting a lot of airtime but
are actually really important, " said Alan Berger,
managing partner at abcg and moderator for
the panel. " One of those things is the hype
around generative AI. Is this topic relevant in
our industry? What about all the data that
we're generating? How do we use that? Do
these technologies have an impact on business
models and how we go to market? And how do
we get the right talent into the organization?
We need to untangle all this. "
A panel of perspectives
Dr. Ray Gallant, VP of sustainability and productivity
services for Volvo Construction Equipment,
gave his general view on AI in the industry.
" There's a lot of talk in the industry about generative
AI and classical AI. How do we use the new AI
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to take those mountains of millions of data points
and make sense of them? We can't possibly build
a spreadsheet the way we used to and try to spot
trends. There's just too much data coming in and
it overwhelms us. So, we can use AI to help us
spot the trends and take direction from that data. "
Gallant continued, " What's really exciting
and what's different than most of the innovations
that I've seen in my career is now we
have three completely different technology
sets converging with each other. So no longer
is it a technical innovation in one area that may
disrupt that part of the industry, it could be a
technical innovation for an [entire] industry. "
" I believe over the next 10 years, we're going
to see more change to this industry than we've
seen in the last 100, which can induce anxiety, "
said Steve Greenfield, general partner at
Automotive Ventures. " But if you're positioned
correctly to leverage some of these trends it
should really energize anybody in the audience,
especially younger folks in the industry,
which has been somewhat of a challenge. "
Phil McEwen, VP and general manager of
commercial and special vehicles for Continental,
provided his perspective on the business case
for utilization of AI in the industry. " One of the
big questions about AI on the business side is
Judy Curran
Mary Lee Gambone
Joan Wills
Susan Ying, Ph.D
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