Samsung has launched a new project to develop an automatic factory for chip production, in which there will be no human staff. All processes in it will be managed by artificial intelligence, a special production version. And this is just the beginning – Samsung is going to fully automate its factories within the next six years.
At the moment, the rejection of human work is out of the question, as there is no technology to analyze and eliminate random malfunctions. However, Samsung’s new project is just about creating next-generation intelligent sensors. So far it concerns highly specialized devices for controlling PCB manufacturing processes, but the potential of such sensors is much wider.
Today there are possibilities to automate all production processes in one enterprise with a fixed work cycle. But there is no possibility to teach automation to react to abnormal situations, simply because they cannot be foreseen and described in detail. It requires reaction and “smartness”, which is formed as experience is accumulated, for which artificial intelligence is well suited. But another difficulty arises at once – if everything at the enterprise works as it should and no problems arise, what will this AI be trained on?
