Assoc. Dir AI Research at Collins Aerospace
Keynote: Living in a Generative World
17:00 – 18:00
Abstract
The recent rise in generative AI capabilities, including large language models and ubiquitous interactive chatbots has thrown the world into a new age. Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, and the growth of numerous commercial and open source large language models, hundreds of millions of people have experienced something new in human experience—the ability to generate something simply by describing it in plain language.
Clever chatbots, however, are just the beginning of a new paradigm. In this talk we’ll explore a near-future where most of our work is performed in partnership with a generative AI. These partners or assistants will take our ideas, desires, and requests and produce outlines, paragraphs, articles, papers, diagrams, software, symbols models, engineering documents, illustrations, video and even complete songs and music. They have no desire to replace us—in fact they have no desires at all—so they depend completely on us to prompt, request, describe, specify, guide, direct, and instruct them on what to do, and then on how to improve it, combine it, and ultimately produce and distribute it.
In this session, we’ll take a look at this generative future, and how we can begin to develop ourselves, our employees and our communities to take advantage of the opportunities it offers. We’ll look at ways to create by generating right now to benefit our engineering work, solve problems, and develop new opportunities for ourselves and our organizations.
Bio Barclay Brown
Barclay R. Brown is Associate Director for AI Research at Collins Aerospace, a division of RTX. Before joining Collins, he was an Engineering Fellow in Raytheon Missiles and Defense, focusing on MBSE, and prior to that he was the Global Solution Executive for the Aerospace and Defense Industry at IBM. Dr. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, two master’s degrees in psychology and business and a PhD in industrial and systems engineering. He is author of Engineering Intelligent Systems, published by Wiley, and is a certified Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP), certified Systems Engineering Quality Manager, and former CIO of INCOSE.