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Discussion / presentation by Patrick Dixon to a charitable Foundation. Infosys has invested hugely in predictive analytics, for example in the oil and gas sector. Engineers planted around 30 sensors on several oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, and connected their data outputs to AI.
The sensors were recording things like temperature, air pressure, low frequency vibrations, high pitched sounds and so on, and matching the data to other events such as mechanical breakdowns.
After a few weeks, the team had an alert from the system, warning that there was going to be a problem soon on one of the rigs, which was not taken very seriously because the system had only just been set up.
A few days later there was a major incident, and the engineers realised that AI discovered how to prevent disasters. But how? AI had detected unusual and obscure data patterns beyond any human understanding.
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