A postgraduate at Leonardo in Yeovil has won a prestigious lecture competition.
James Wan came out on top in the Yeovil Branch Reggie Brie Young Persons’ Lecture competition, with his presentation on aerospace innovation that begins with AI.
The competition challenged young people across the South West to present groundbreaking ideas, with Mr Wan's winning presentation exploring the potential for expanding AI use in the future.
Mr Wan, a postgraduate software engineer, said: "If you look up something on Google or Bing, it will automatically give you an AI summary at the top.
"When you use social media, AI is already working behind the scenes to personalise your news feeds, once it has learned which posts you like.
"Leonardo is an example of where aerospace has seen this potential and is looking to enhance products and internal processes with AI improvements."
He also highlighted the need for high-quality input when training AI in aerospace technology, and the safety concerns when AI asserts a falsehood as a fact.
He said: "If you ask the AI how many ‘r’s there were in the word ‘strawberry’, it tells you the word has two ‘r’s, even though there are three.
"This is probably an example of an issue in the training data that hasn’t been corrected, so it is stating a falsehood as a fact."
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