“When in danger
or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.” -- Naval adage, quoted
in Wouk’s 1951 “The Caine Mutiny”
“Like Photoshop
on steroids” -- OpenAI boss Sam Altman describing the risks of AI in
U.S. Senate hearing testimony (May 17, 2023)
The Yin Yang of AI
Artificial Intelligence is an emerging technology that is both inspiring and
terrifying in its implications.
As a non-techie, I wanted to learn a little bit about AI.
Normally when I want to get a layman’s view of an unfamiliar topic, I go to one
of the books produced under the For Dummies franchise. And there is, of course,
an “Artificial Intelligence for Dummies.” This would be well worth the read.
Another resource is the AI Course- Elements of AI (https://course.elementsofai.com/ ) To
quote from their Web site …
“In spring 2018, MinnaLearn and the
University of Helsinki came together with the aim of helping people to be
empowered, not threatened, by artificial intelligence. Together, they built the
Elements of AI to teach the basics of AI to people from a wide range of
backgrounds.”
TIP 1:
Even if you are an expert on AI, it would not hurt to breeze through this
course. It may help you explain AI to dummies like me.
TIP 2:
Subscribe to MIT’s The Download https://www.technologyreview.com/
). It is thanks to one of their
newsletters that I learned about the Elements of AI
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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Americas (https://americas.aramco.com/
), Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting
LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.
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Saturday, May 20, 2023
The Yin Yang of AI
Friday, May 5, 2023
ChatGPT’s performance on Oil & Gas problems
“All
models are wrong, but some are useful.” -- George Box, British
statistician
ChatGPT
has burst upon the scene like an oversized balloon. It is even being used in
the oil and gas industry, as described in the open access article “Industrial
Engineering with Large Language Models-A case study of ChatGPT’s performance on
Oil & Gas problems” (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.14354
)
Written by Oluwatosin Ogundare, Srinath Madasu, Nathanial Wiggins, of California
State University, San Bernardino, IBM Technology, and University of Houston,
respectively, it discusses the potential and the limitations of ChatGPT in the
oil and gas industry.
To give you a taste, here is the article’s conclusion …
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Conclusion
Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to be useful in industrial engineering,
particularly oil and gas engineering. This paper identifies some of the
limitations of current LLM approaches, particularly ChatGPT, in solving problems
in the oil and gas industry. The potential applications of LLMs in solving
problems in various areas of oil and gas engineering is demonstrated with
examples from rock physics, but generally includes other important aspects like
Full Waveform Inversion (FWI), acoustic reflectometry, hydrodynamic pressure
pulse reflection, and well intervention. Areas for improvement are suggested,
including improving the nature of the data used to train LLMs, and enriching
the output of LLMs with domain-specific knowledge which in many cases involves
imposing physical constraints on the output.
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Jean Steinhardt served as Librarian,
Aramco Americas (https://americas.aramco.com/
), Engineering Division, for 13 years. He now heads Jean Steinhardt Consulting
LLC, producing the same high quality research that he performed for Aramco.
Follow Jean’s blog at: http://desulf.blogspot.com/
for continuing tips on effective online research
Email Jean at jstoneheart@gmail.com with
questions on research, training, or anything else