In China, AI warship designer did nearly a year’s work in a day
- It took humans 300 times longer to complete the same tasks, according to study funded by Chinese military
- Team says AI designer had ‘100 per cent accuracy’ and is ‘ready for engineering applications’
It took the AI designer about a day to complete work that took humans, using the most advanced computer tools available, 300 times longer – or nearly a year, according to the team from the China Ship Design and Research Centre.
Their study was published in the Chinese-language journal Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems on February 27.
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Given the scale and complexity of modern warships, mistakes are an inevitable part of the design process and it can take many hours to discover and correct them.
But when the researchers put the AI designer to the test, with more than 400 challenging tasks, it “achieved 100 per cent accuracy”, said the team led by Luo Wei, a senior engineer with the ship design centre.
They said there was room for improvement, but the AI designer was “ready for engineering applications” in China’s shipbuilding industry to boost the speed of warship manufacturing.
There are growing concerns among some nations over China’s expanding military and its capacity to produce warships – particularly in the United States.
