Ran across this, I have not read it all but thought I would share it
I saw the demo of Rockwell’s AI Copilot, it was completely useless. You have to export your projects into a different environment. It only has the ability to pull from their own sample code. It then generates pseudo-code, when you have to then import back into Logix Designer and fix. I know pretty much all AI generated code needs some rework but what their copilot produced, it would have been easier to just use your own libraries that almost everyone already has.
I asked why they aren’t focused on integrating the tools directly into Logix Designer. Their answer was that they can’t because of the nature of the architecture of the ACD file makes it not possible. That sound so silly to me. If you can manually export/import, then at least they could automate that process and not make me do it. Besides, LogixDesigner already can pack/unpack the ACD file, so why would you focus on writing a whole other software package and make your users go through so much trouble to make use of a half baked AI?
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I fear that all these companies hopping on the AI bandwagon are going to face the same issues that the former IOT craze in consumer electronics did; a half-cooked platform buggy and full of BS for no reason other than to simply have AI. I see the uses of it in interpreting large data and predictive maintenance stuff, but that technology already existed before the generative AI LLM craze. I appreciate the legitimate uses of LLMs, and I use it as a tool for my proverbial tool box; however, I simply don’t see the utility in something like integrated generative AI for industrial controls. Kinda seems like the goal is to devalue the work of experienced programmers.
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AI is this years cliche’
Remember 2 years ago you had to own land in the metaverse or your company would get left behind? (No one realized that when all the land in the metaverse was sold they wouldn’t be able to sell their ‘investment’ for a profit because the metaverse is digital and they can just add another continent of open land)
What about when the new investment was NFT’s? Sell everything and buy NFT’s! Then (as I thought from the start) as soon as people woke up and realized what they are (digital nothing) they dropped in value to $1.10. (Insert jibe to Justin Beiber who paid $1.5 million for a strange ape NFT only to have it drop over 90% within month or 2, and now he couldn’t sell it for $1,000)
How about before that everything was Bitcoin? Close out your accounts and buy Bitcoin because that will be how everyone transacts in the next year (that would have been 2022)
Plus, even though a few places use them, QR codes were supposed to be the only way. Just hand out business cards with a QR code - no printed words needed other than your name, no contact info on fliers and ads - just put a QR code.
Just this years fad / YouTube ad binge.