Page 24 - Australasian Paint & Panel July-August 2019

24
News In Focus • IBIS Global Summit report
PAINT&PANEL JULY / AUGUST 2019 WWW.PAINTANDPANEL.COM.AU
IBIS PASSION FOR PROGRESS CONFERENCE
THE IBIS GLOBAL SUMMIT WAS HELD
IN BAVENO, ITALY ON 10-12 JUNE. HUNDREDS OF INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES CAME TOGETHER TO
LISTEN TO THE WELL PRESENTED SESSIONS AND TO NETWORK.
BY SAM STREET
T WAS SUITABLE WEATHER FOR A
collision repair gathering on the first night with a storm, torrential rain and a good smattering of reasonably sized hail. Networking drinks and
er were thankfully inside.
The conference theme was Passion for Progress and kicked off with a lively presentation by Dr Annette Winkler, for- mer head of the Smart product division, Daimler AG about her time at Smart and the decision to become an electric only brand. Very interesting, although this delegate struggled to see the relevance
to the repair market.
The next session was titled the myths
and truths of AI for the automotive colli- sion repair sector, presented by Professor
Hod Lipson, professor of engineering and data science, Columbia University. He talked about the development of artificial intelligence and how after being a bit of a disappointment it is finally taking off and phenomenal sums are being invested in developing it further. Investment started in 2012, by 2017 he couldn't fit the graph line for investment on the huge confer- ence screen. He explained the difference between rule-based AI which is the AI that has been used in the past. Now we can utilise AI which is based on probabil- ities, so you don't tell it what to do you show it what to do by giving examples and it calculates the probabilities. The fuel for all of the learning is data - which is why data is king.
AI can already detect a number of issues with cars and report this back to the own- er or manufacturer. Interestingly Lipson said that he believed automated cars would increase vehicle ownership and va- riety (e.g. a delivery drone) and not de- crease as it has been predicted.
It is the cloud where AIs can share ex- perience with other AIs which is why the more miles driverless cars cover the better the AI will be as it shares all of its experiences to a hive mind. In terms of collision repair its already being used
to detect accident damage from photo-
I
Axalta’s display caused much admiration at coffee breaks.
dinn