Zeki Demirtaşoğlu, President of the Association of Milling Machinery Manufacturers (DESMÜD), stated that Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, which were discussed as one of the most prominent topics in the Economic Forum Meeting, Davos, have been closely followed by the milling sector manufacturers for a long time and have been applied by their member companies.
Artificial intelligence is an intuitive imitation of human intelligence managed by computer softwares, and today these computer software codes, i.e. artificial intelligence, are cloud-based in every field from business applications to consumer applications. However, even ChatGPT, the most well-known AI application today, benefits from only a very limited portion of AI.
Artificial intelligence is the imitation of defined human intelligence by a machine to perform the required tasks. These tasks can range from simple to more complex. The goal of artificial intelligence is to imitate human cognitive intelligence. Today, research and development scientists are advancing at an astonishing pace in imitating learning, questioning and perception, so that artificial intelligence technology is becoming more and more advanced. While some people think that these innovators will soon be able to develop systems that surpass the human capacity to learn or evaluate any subject, others remain skeptical because all cognitive activity is embedded in value judgments that are subject to human experience.
The ideal artificial intelligence is one in which artificial intelligence is specialized to perform operations for a specific purpose. A subset of AI is machine learning, in which computer programs spontaneously learn and apply new data without any human guidance. Such deep learning techniques enable the automatic learning of large amounts of ungrouped data such as text, images, graphics or video.
As technology advances, previous criteria for defining artificial intelligence are becoming obsolete. For example, the work done by machines that compute basic functions or recognize text through optical character recognition is no longer considered a function of artificial intelligence, but a normal computer function.
The applications of artificial intelligence are now seen to be endless. This technology will be applied to many different sectors and industries over time. To give an example; today artificial intelligence is already involved in applications such as drug dose recommendations, determining treatments and assisting surgical procedures in the operating room in the health sector, detecting and flagging activities such as unusual bank card usage and large account deposits in banking and finance. In fact, collaborations in this area are increasing. For example, META and IBM have even established a specific company to benefit from the artificial intelligence more effectively.
AI takes an interdisciplinary approach to machine design and production, drawing on mathematics, computer science, linguistics, psychology, and more. Other examples of machines with artificial intelligence include chess-playing computers and driverless cars. Each of these machines works by weighing all their actions, as each action will affect a final outcome. For example, for no-driver cars, an artificial intelligence computer system takes into account all external data and makes calculations to avoid any collisions.
In milling, too, artificial intelligence is being used more and more today. High-quality products from milling can be achieved through intelligent monitoring, diagnostics, real-time evaluation, production optimization, raw material management, machine learning and the use of powerful data tools. By incorporating artificial intelligence-based algorithms, the complex operations of the milling process can be performed with excellent results. These AI-based approaches are also used in the milling of crops other than wheat and in the separation of precious metals.
