AMPP Annual Conference + Expo sets the agenda for the future of the industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to a promising future and is not to be feared, renowned physicist Michio Kaku told a packed house as the keynote speaker for the 2024 AMPP Annual Conference + Expo held at Ernest N. Moria Convention Center, New Orleans, USA, March 3 through 7, 2024.

Targeting his message to his audience with references to corrosion and the future of construction, the professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York presented his vision of a future paved by AI and nanotechnology.

He doused fears of a future led by out-of-control Al, saying a scientist views chatbots and other forms of AI as similar to a tape recorder.

"A tape recorder faithfully records the human voice, and then you can chop it up and reassemble it to create something new," he said. "A chatbot goes into this gigantic structure called the Internet, isolates what you want, chops it up, splices it together, and puts it out for you. So chatbots are nothing to be afraid of. They are simply glorified tape recorders. They don't think. They're not original."

The author, whom AMPP CEO Alan Thomas called "one of the world's leading scientific figures," envisions a future where structures with embedded sensors will report their own incidences of corrosion. Furthermore, cars will tell their owners when their engines begin to suffer from wear and tear.