Using Real Vs. Artificial Intelligence To Design And Operate Hydraulic Systems

By Tom Walski, Ph.D., Bentley Systems

It’s difficult to pick up an engineering magazine or journal without seeing an article about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to solve all of our problems. While these tools are indeed powerful and useful, are they really the panacea that they are sold as?

In the hands of AI professionals, with adequate data, AI models can be very valuable for predicting behaviors that can’t be modeled using physics-based models, for example, which pipe is most likely to break next?