AI Names ‘Best’ Reliability Engineers
Abstract
Kirk and Fred discuss a recent AI search topic: who is the best reliability engineer?
Key Points
Join Kirk and Fred as they discuss how AI tends to provide answers with some bias towards the person inquiring and maybe a little bit of confirmation bias.
Topics include:
- Why do Fred and Kirk get different answers to the same questions in the same AI tool?
- Why do we still have to have a basic understanding of the subject material if in a specific field? There have been many times when an AI tool like Grammarly does not recognize the specific terminology in each field, and that it is a valid use of an uncommon term.
- Even with the potential flaws of AI engines and tools, the ability to re-edit, re-format, and suggest alternative phrasing makes them very useful for basic information on just about any subject in the world, including reliability and HALT and HASS methods.
- AI uses vast amounts of data scraped across the internet for reliability, and since the real root cause of electronics failures is rarely published, due to the sensitivity and potential liability for the manufacturing company, the vast majority of real causes of failures are never publicly released it is therefore hidden from AI and almost all reliability engineering disciplines.
- Using AI for checking the reliability of a design, such as a new smartphone, is limited to the data and information in the past and potential risks for specific failure mechanisms, which design engineers should use to improve successive designs. Even when design engineers follow good design rules, things can be overlooked, and HALT is still very useful for discovering those mistakes.
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Show Notes
Please click on this link to access a relatively new analysis of traditional reliability prediction methods article from the US ARMY and CALCE titled “Reliability Prediction – Continued Reliance on a Misleading Approach”.
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