Intel VP: AI-aided defect detection is a killer app for industrial IoT

Computer vision has become one of AI's most promising applications, combining ever-improving cameras with faster and smarter automated object recognition. During today's Transform 2020 digital conference, Intel VP Brian McCarson spoke with VentureBeat CEO Matt Marshall about computer vision's role in the growing industrial internet of things (IIoT) market. The conversation highlighted a particularly compelling emergent use case: hugely improved product defect detection that promises to improve the reliability of everything from computer screens to cars. Manufacturers seeking to eliminate product defects haven't historically lacked staff or defect screening expertise, McCarson said -- they have been held back by limitations of the human eye. In modern consumer products, defects can be microscopic or near-microscopic, such as bad screen pixels or surface issues in aluminum car transmission components.