Episode 68: AI Beyond the Hype - What Industrial Leaders Need to Know

[upbeat music] Welcome to Digitalization Tech Talks, the podcast focused on addressing challenges in the process industries through the use of new and emerging technologies.

Our goal is to provide ideas that may help you on your own journey toward becoming a digital enterprise.

Klatu Barada Nikto.

If you're a fan of classic sci-fi, you may recognize that phrase from the 1951 film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and in it, Helen uses it to communicate with the robot Gort.

For decades, science fiction imagined a future where people could simply converse with technology and make things happen.

Today, that future is rapidly becoming reality.

In this episode, we're gonna explore the convergence of the physical and digital worlds.

We're gonna discuss how industrial manufacturers are approaching AI, and we're also going to examine what it takes to build trust in AI-driven systems.

We'll also take a look ahead at what the next few years may hold as conversational interfaces, and intelligent agents, and digital technologies become increasingly woven, not just into our daily lives, but also into industrial operations.

Before we begin the conversation with today's guest, I'd like to welcome my co-host, Cole Lewis.

Cole, when you think about the way science fiction has imagined our relationship with technology, how close do you think we are to, to achieving that future?

[upbeat music] Welcome to Digitalization Tech Talks, the podcast focused on addressing challenges in the process industries through the use of new and emerging technologies.

Our goal is to provide ideas that may help you on your own journey toward becoming a digital enterprise.

Klatu Barada Nikto.

If you're a fan of classic sci-fi, you may recognize that phrase from the 1951 film, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and in it, Helen uses it to communicate with the robot Gort.

For decades, science fiction imagined a future where people could simply converse with technology and make things happen.

Today, that future is rapidly becoming reality.

In this episode, we're gonna explore the convergence of the physical and digital worlds.

We're gonna discuss how industrial manufacturers are approaching AI, and we're also going to examine what it takes to build trust in AI-driven systems.

We'll also take a look ahead at what the next few years may hold as conversational interfaces, and intelligent agents, and digital technologies become increasingly woven, not just into our daily lives, but also into industrial operations.

Before we begin the conversation with today's guest, I'd like to welcome my co-host, Cole Lewis.

Cole, when you think about the way science fiction has imagined our relationship with technology, how close do you think we are to, to achieving that future?