How AI and machine learning change everything

By the time today's youth retire, or perhaps sooner, they might see artificial intelligence and machine learning change just about everything in the fab shop. There's an old saying in manufacturing: Automation is only as good as what you tell it to do. Richard Boyd has spent a career proving this statement wrong. Boyd has worked with Hollywood studios and computer gaming companies; launched Virtual World Labs that concentrated on virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence; and then sold that company to Lockheed-Martin, where he worked for a time before striking out on his own again. A speaker at this year's FABTECH show in Chicago, Boyd is founder and CEO of Tanjo (rhymes with "bongo"), a Carrboro, N.C., company specializing in AI and machine learning.