An attempt by AI to create a work shift for a subway engineer instead of a boss

ByWill Cyr

Softbank's grandson presidentA robot with emotion "Pepper"As I have announced, AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology is steadily progressing, but "Will the development of technology deprive human's job?Anxiety that is being discussed is also being discussed. In Hong Kong subway every year 10,000 subway engineers are doing repair work and maintenance at night, but efficiently to the appropriate work place everyday by algorithms that determine the repair point of the subway network which human beings can not grasp at all AI to arrange the engineers on the machine has appeared.

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The Hong Kong subway is "MTR"It is operated by the subway system called London and New York, so it is said that it is the top level subway in the world because it operates at an accurate time. In order to maintain smooth metro operation, engineers are repairing the subway network at nighttime but MTR Co., Ltd., which manages the MTR system, leaves the network managing the placement of engineers to AI. We are promoting plans to do.

ByNebraska Oddfish

We designed AI system for MTRHong Kong UniversityAndy Zhang said, "The engineering arrangement of MTR systems classified in sections 5 to 6 has been terribly disorderly so far." Mr. Chan's AI grasps the whole system of the subway and generates the necessary construction on the optimum schedule. It is possible to combine work and distribute resources at a level impossible for human beings with full knowledge.

Unexpected emergency repair etc can add schedules manually and the system has the function to reposition tasks which are not so important according to the added schedule, but at this stage the generated schedule Human approval is required. Also, since 200 rules are encoded in a machine-readable language, it is possible to set up a maintenance plan that takes into consideration the noise level prescribed by local regulations that engineers must observe. The MTR checks the construction schedule generated by AI on the 2nd of the week, and estimates that MTR can reduce annual cost of 800 thousand dollars (about 81.53 million yen) by efficient work distribution.

ByMetropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York

Mr. Chang said, "The difference with just software is that AI is able to accumulate knowledge of human beings by accumulating experiences," but for engineers, "a new idea to allocate work schedule by computer" There is a problem that there is a problem that it is not easy to start.