Making sure this works properly

Making sure this works

Generative AI, which is the next step after generative algorithms, aggregates large and often dissimilar aspects of data to create new things. And Siemens by no means has a monopoly on its use in aerospace. A visit to Accenture’s equally busy chalet yields similar excitement about the potential of technology to revolutionize aerospace and help companies compensate for the industry’s workforce shortage.

While Tuthill acknowledges it could be a long time before airplanes designed with AI are certified by regulatory authorities, he says the latest advances in AI build on research that goes back to the year the Farnborough show first admitted non-UK exhibitors. “We’ve been doing AI at Siemens since 1974,” he says. “It’s not new.”