Conference Alert: IHIET 2025-13th International Conference on Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies: Artificial Intelligence & Future Applications

IHIET 2025-13th International Conference on Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies: Artificial Intelligence & Future Applications (https://ihiet-ai.org/ ) is scheduled for April 22-24, 2025, Costa Del Sol, Universidad de Málaga, Spain.

AI-Artificial Intelligence is poised to have enormous impact on human society. Whatever industry you are in, it behooves you to consider attending this conference.

TIP: Browse the conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies: Artificial Intelligence & Future Applications (IHIET- AI 2024) which was held April 25-27, 2024, at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland. Find the proceedings at AHFE Open Access (http://ihiet-ai.org/books.html )

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Conference Alert: 2 MIT events … ClimateTech and EmTech

"College had little effect on me. I’d have been the same writer if I’d gone to MIT, except I’d have flunked out sooner.” ~ Robert B. Parker (1932-2010), American writer, primarily of fiction within the mystery/detective genre

Two (2) MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) events are on the horizon.

The first, ClimateTech, is scheduled for October 4-5, 2023 on the MIT campus.

The second, EmTech (Emerging Technologies) is scheduled for November 14-15, 2023.

At ClimateTech, Celina Mikolajczak, Chief Battery Technology Officer, Lyten (www.lyten.com ), San Jose California, will speak on new lithium-sulphur battery technology.

TIP: Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com) search on lithium-sulphur battery for background on the technology

Here is MIT’S description of the EmTech event …

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MIT Technology Review’s flagship event returns in November. EmTech MIT unwraps the technologies and trends driving social and commercial impact and offers trustworthy guidance needed to navigate the ever-changing landscape of a world transformed by technology.

What’s on the agenda this year

•     The ABC Forces: We look at how artificial intelligence, biotech, and climate change are changing everything.
•     Business Impact: AI is changing every job description, and climate change is impacting every product decision, so what does this mean for you and your business?
•     Social Impact: What does it mean to live a longer life, enriched by AI, in an environmentally responsible world?
•     Economic Impact: How will the policies that might govern AI, our bodies, and our planet change the economy.
•     Research Impact: We examine the ideas in our the labs that will change our lives tomorrow.

Mark your calendar and register to join us online or on campus for EmTech MIT November 14-15, 2023.
https://event.technologyreview.com/emtech-mit-2023?utm_source=event_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ETM23-FIRSTMOVERS&utm_campaign=emtech_mit_2023.unpaid.acquisition&discount=EMAILFM081450&mc_cid=954b5a300d&mc_eid=76363cef0a#register
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The Yin Yang of AI

“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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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.

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