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how do you enable this technology faster
than we've done it before, " he said.
" My best example is telematics, "
McEwen continued. " If you buy your car
today it is available with telematics. The
car talks back to the cloud and gives all
diagnostics. Think about how long it
took to come full circle to get that, what
the barriers of entry were for a lot of
these Tier 1s. And I love the startup topic
here. That's also a great way of forcing
the industry forward. "
Driving development
abcg's Berger asked the panel specifically
if there were actual applications being
employed in their respective businesses.
" I think that the way to look at AI is practical, "
Continental's McEwen said. " Say
you're a venture capitalist and you're raising
a 10-year fund. So, whatever technologies
you're investing in and effectively
betting on have to manifest within
10 years' time. The adage is that being
too early is worse than being wrong. This
is very true in venture capital, and then
how I look at it is really this framework,
whether this is right or wrong. "
McEwen continued, " Compared to
even three years ago, it's crazy how
much AI has improved. The quality, the
throughput, the effectiveness of a software
developer because they've effectively
got this little co-pilot on the
righthand side of the screen where it
can be writing code for them or correcting
their code in real time. So, the
methodology of writing the code is
very different. "
SAE COMVEC executive panel on AI (from left): Alan Berger of abcg, Volvo CE's Ray Gallant, Steve
Greenfield of Automotive Ventures, Phil McEwen of Continental, and Cummins' Gary Johansen.
An example of the " end state " for AI
is Tesla's Optimus robot, which eventually
will replace humans, McEwen said.
" That may seem farfetched, but within
two years Amazon will have more robots
in their warehouses than humans.
So, that inflection point is coming very
quickly, " he said. " What I would like to
see AI used as is a co-pilot, which is
simply an augmentation. Think of it as
increasing your intelligence by 10 IQ
points and increasing your productivity
by 25%. You're going to see many more
of those applications in the short term
across every industry. "
Gary Johansen, VP of engineering for
power systems at Cummins, discussed
his view on AI's capability to improve
product development. " I think if you look
across the entire value chain of what we
do in product development, one of the
best uses for this tool is alleviating the
engineer tedium. Relieving the engineer
of tedious tasks of report generation or
documentation is very helpful.
" At the same time, we've got to be
Continental employs
AI technology in its
autonomous and
electric Contadino
agricultural robot
used on farms for
seeding, weeding,
spraying, fertilizing
and monitoring.
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careful so we don't remove [engineers']
opportunity to do their own thinking, "
Johansen continued. " If you move all
the way up the value chain to the product
creation, product conception and
exploring the design space in hardware
in addition to software, and maybe
finding solutions that we perhaps
wouldn't have thought of. So, one of
the things we're trying to do right now
is make sure we're not just focusing in
one part of the value chain. "
Cummins is " walking before running "
when it comes to AI implementation,
Johansen added. " We're trying to sample
and pilot in areas that give us a strategic
view about how these things might
help us all the way through value creation.
We're not to that point yet, but I
think in terms of saving money, saving
time and creating value, we're certainly
trending in that direction. "
Predicting trends
Volvo CE's Gallant provided observations
on AI's capacity to analyze large
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