Machine Learning Will Help Us Fix What's Broken Before It Breaks

Any fan of recent sci-fi movies and TV has likely seen some genius designer model an amazing new invention virtually before actually building the thing in the physical world. This is not as much a future thing as it may seem. High-tech industries have lately become infatuated with the idea of "digital twins." A digital twin is an exact virtual replica of a physical device. It's a computer model that operates identically to the physical version.