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Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI apps such as ChatGPT and Bard, have dominated the news cycle since they became widely available starting in November 2022. GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is often used to generate text trained on large volumes of text data.
Undoubtedly impressive, gen AI has composed new songs, created images and drafted emails (and much more), all while raising legitimate ethical and practical concerns about how it could be used or misused. However, when you introduce the concept of gen AI into the operational technology (OT) space, it brings up significant questions about potential impacts, how to best test it and how it can be used effectively and safely.
Impact, testing, and reliability of AI in OT
In the OT world, operations are all about repetition and consistency. The goal is to have the same inputs and outputs so that you can predict the outcome of any situation. When something unpredictable occurs, there’s always a human operator behind the desk, ready to make decisions quickly based on the possible…
