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That’s really interesting! Do you have other interesting specific examples? I would have guessed that most industrial control problems were simpler sets of diff
by spenczar5 2y ago
That’s really interesting! Do you have other interesting specific examples? I would have guessed that most industrial control problems were simpler sets of differential equations that could be directly estimated.
- wruza 2y agoI’ve heard about a local packaging factory recently that uses an ML-first system for messaging their clients about what they will need to order soon, based on recent orders and global criteria. It’s not a simple problem, apparently. They signal the clients and start pre-producing, basically sort of algotrading themselves. Not really an industrial control though, but close to it.
- nick3443 2y agoPID control your customers :)
- cyberax 2y agoFurnace control was one of the first practical applications of multi-layer neural networks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282185187_Artificial_neural_nets_for_prediction_of_silicon_content_of_blast_furnace_hot_metal https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282185187_Artificia...
- ben_w 2y agoBack in ~2004, when I was looking for a job for the industrial placement year of my degree, one of the options was a nut packing factory using computer vision systems. I was intrigued, but went for the job processing satellite images instead. Even well before that, ML is very closely related to statistics, so early practical applications would have been as simple as gathering data points on widget production and doing the kinds of analyses that are now backed into free spreadsheet software.
- varjag 2y agoFrom what I remember reading at the time, most of industrial vision applications 20 years ago had very little to do with neural networks. Or even with ML in general, relying on bespoke feature detectors.
- lazide 2y agoCNNs are the gold standard, and neural networks. Not ‘AI’ though.
- varjag 2y agoPerhaps in 2024. Not in 2004.
- lazide 2y agosince the 90’s [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network]
- varjag 2y agoI know the history and the fist USPS applications. My point is in any random industrial vision setup on the verge of millennium you'd unlikely found any sort of NN.
- albertzeyer 2y ago(Small) neural networks have been discussed to be used in computer chips for branch prediction. I don't really find a good source whether that really landed in production though. Here was some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340348 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12340348