I recently talked to someone who works at a company that builds fairly complicated machinery (induction heating for a certain material processing). He works in

I recently talked to someone who works at a company that builds fairly complicated machinery (induction heating for a certain material processing). He works in management and they did a week long workshop with a bunch of the managers to figure out where AI will make their company more efficient. What they came up with was that they could feed a spec from a customer into an AI and the AI will create the CAD drawings, wiring diagrams, software etc. by itself. And they wrote a report on it. And I just had to break it to him: The thing that AI is actually best at, is replacing these week-long workshop where managers are bs-ing around to write reports. Also, it shouldn't be the managers doing a top down approach where to deploy AI. Get the engineers, technicians, programmers etc. and they should have a workshop to make plans where to use AI, because they probably already are experimenting with it and understand where it works well and where it doesn't quite cut it yet.