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AI Assistants Join the Factory Floor

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Microsoft 's Factory Operations Agent is powered by large language models and designed specifically for manufacturers.

The tool can help track down the causes of defects, downtime, or excess energy consumption.

Schaeffler, which runs hundreds of plants on Microsoft ’s system, is able to train its agent on data from all over the world.

It is due to leave public preview later this year , making it broadly available to Azure users.

Speaking in his personal capacity, Duncan Eddy , executive director of the Stanford Center for AI Safety , says the biggest concern for AI models like the Factory Operations Agent is simply that users won’t recognize when the system is starting to fail, or won’t know how to intervene once they do. “These systems can fail in new and surprising and unpredictable ways,” he says..

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