With ChatGPT at this level, how far is AI still from being able to replace us in designing pressure vessels?

It’s a long way off; we’ll talk about signing and taking responsibility once the time is right

He might be able to answer some complex technical questions, but container design is a systematic endeavor that involves quotes, drawing, calculations, reviews, changes, design of non-standard structures, and also the legal responsibilities related to signing mentioned earlier; I doubt I’ll live long enough to see myself replaced

Take a look; this is the civilian version, and there are also specialized versions available, which are classified. NASA in the United States has already begun using the complex components designed with GPT in practice, and it performs much better than manual methods when it comes to testing stress distribution. These tasks that involve using fixed industrial design software will be replaced within 10 years; individual creativity simply cannot compete with AI databases. Can you beat global reference databases by yourself? Talking about creativity is nonsense – it depends on how much creativity a person has. In the future, chemical engineering design firms can be eliminated; people will be able to produce complete sets of construction design drawings, budgets, and procurement plans directly.

But we needn’t worry; China will ban the civilian use of GPT. Isn’t it called for people to be used instead of machines, in order to ensure job stability? Within 10 years, the gap will widen, giving rise to a new era of decisive, dimensionally reduced attacks. This has nothing to do with us; God provides us with food to eat – so what does it matter if it’s a 996 work schedule?

The era of machine intelligence has truly arrived.

What are you thinking? Text-editing tools have this possibility; those that aren’t systematic might as well； If you asked GPT to create a set of PTA drawings [for processes, equipment, instruments, etc.], do you think it’s possible? This thing can’t bend its head; at most it can look up some information to find a standard, which makes things a bit easier. I understand him as something more advanced, like Little Ai.

This post was last edited by In silence on 2023-2-13 at 13:33. ChatGPT cannot obtain design qualifications, assume design responsibilities, issue special approval seals, nor can it overcome the challenges posed by the piping department that does not provide the necessary piping documentation. Besides, the client side (or the design institute) has never been able to clarify their requirements once and for all. So, for ChatGPT, it’s impossible to carry out accurate design while also taking into account the redundancy caused by data gaps; it’s unclear what tricks the container manufacturers might use with the steel plates to shape the equipment in certain ways, and it’s also difficult to account for the additional errors that can occur during construction by the chemical engineering companies. It might be possible to design a gas tank without any signatures required, but designing large PDH towers or catalytic reactors is beyond its capabilities. So overall, it’s no good.

Have you thought about what would happen if, in the piping field, clients all used ChatGPT? In this way, the company only needs to find a few people who understand management to oversee the proper operation of the AI; ordinary technical issues can be handled by the AI, while more complex problems are left to experts. Most ordinary designers can be replaced.

It might be possible in the future, but it cannot be achieved through training in a short period of time