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pabilities, knowledge, and experience, and who exists for no the question remains whether an AI is capable of a nuanced purpose other than to maximize the skills and knowledge of understanding of the trainee’s needs, the ability to adapt to that individual trainee. completely unforeseen circumstances, and the personal men-

As an example, consider an AI system that is used for train- torship that human trainers excel at. Will human trainers still ing the skill of engine troubleshooting. Each trainee starts have anything to offer that AIs don’t offer now and might nev- with a diagnostic test that the AI uses to identify their current er be capable of? If so, perhaps AIs will be a powerful tool of, knowledge level and learning pace. The AI then customizes rather than a replacement for we human trainers. We simply the curriculum separately for each individual, focusing on ar- don’t know yet.

eas where the trainee is weakest. If a trainee struggles with In the next edition of Training Tips for Ships, we will look fuel injection systems (for example), the AI provides a series instead at the potential for a collaborative working relation- of interactive, step-by-step tutorials and simulations speci? c ship between trainers and AIs to bring the best of both worlds to fuel injection problems. As the trainee improves, the AI in- to the training mix.

creases the dif? culty and complexity of the problems, ensur- Until then, thank you for reading and sail safely!

ing the trainee is continuously challenged and engaged.

And meanwhile, as the trainee is learning, so is the AI! It is learning lessons about which techniques work best with vari-

The Author ous trainees and will incorporate those lessons into its future work with these and other trainees. In this way the AI itself is

Goldberg

Murray Goldberg is CEO of Marine continuously improving.

Learning Systems.

In each of these examples above, the training experience is

Email: [email protected] fully automated and personalized - no human trainer required.

And conceivably, it will be better at it than we are. However, www.marinelink.com 9

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