Not long after ChatGPT was unleashed on the public, engineers at Levatas started tinkering with ways to incorporate it into the robots they furnish to big companies.
Levatas supplies ways to automate industrial inspections. Their software guides robots that move through oil platforms, factories, power plants, breweries and other places that need constant monitoring to catch problems before they turn into crises.
Using off-the-shelf components — ChatGPT, voice recognition software, text-to-speech and speech-to-text — Levatas engineers cobbled together a system that makes robots more intelligible to workers, and those workers more intelligible to the robots.
Nielsen and I spoke about how they did it; how they minimized the now-famous risks of language-using AI; how AI and robots make industrial sites safer; how and why automation has to keep a human in the loop. Give a listen!
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