FAST-07

Industry-Specific AI Applications for Massachusetts Sectors

12 hours · 4 live sessions × 3h · Wadood Chaudhary
Session 1 · AI in your industry, honestly · Lesson 9 of 29

Session 1 activities

ACTIVITIES · 41 MIN
Sort

Landscape sort: mature, emerging, or hype

Live or online · 15 min · O1

Drag each AI claim card to the pile its evidence supports. Be ready to defend one card your team disagreed about.

Buckets: MatureEmergingHype
  1. Spam and phishing filters in business email
  2. Route optimization used by regional carriers to plan daily stops
  3. Ambient documentation that drafts clinic notes from a recorded visit
  4. AI that reads construction drawings to flag clashes before a build
  5. An AI that 'eliminates all unplanned downtime' at any machine shop
  6. A chatbot that 'replaces your claims adjusters entirely'
  7. Drafting first-pass customer emails in a general AI assistant, then human review
  8. AI that predicts which guests will cancel a hotel booking
0 of 8 sorted
Poll

What would convince you?

in-class · 3 min · O1

Poll before the sort. Results are revisited at the review.

A vendor claims its AI cuts claim-handling time in half. Which evidence would most convince you?

Scenario

Sector lab 1: the machine log summary

Live or online · 15 min · O3

Branching. Source (fictional): Bayside Precision Parts machine log, Haas VF-4 cell 2 (fictional): 10/05 06:40 spindle vib alarm, op reset, ran. 10/05 11:15 vib alarm again, reset. 10/06 07:05 coolant low, topped up 5 gal. 10/06 13:30 vib alarm, op called maint, 'bearing noise?' maint busy. 10/07 06:55 vib alarm x2, ran at 80% feed per lead. 10/07 14:10 tool 12 broke mid-cut on BP-2207 lot 4471, 6 parts scrapped. Note: next PM due 10/15.

  1. Your AI summary of the log says: 'Spindle vibration issue resolved by operator; tool 12 replaced; no further action needed before PM.' What do you do?

Reflection

Hype at work

Online · 8 min · O1

Online, after session 1.

Describe one AI claim you have heard at work or from a vendor (no company names). Where would you sort it, and what evidence would move it to 'mature'?

  • State the claim in one sentence.
  • Name the pile and why.
  • Name the evidence you would need.
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