AI in Dangerous Goods Training: Spotting Critical Errors

Bad AI (i.e. think waving a rolled up newspaper towards a dog that peed on the floor… [no, i’d never hit a dog])… but AI is getting rapidly less worse. I saw a post yesterday using AI that was utter gibberish… I asked “my” AI to take some text from an IATA 7.4 (loading/unloading/baggage) course i had taught the previous week and make a slide out of it.

Yes, DG pros can spot the errors here almost instantly… but you’d need to be a subject matter “expert” to do so quickly. The hazmat labels are correct, which is something new — it was previously a dysfunctional amalgam of GHS markings. The labels have the Arabic numerals on them (which was missing from most AI renditions of hazard labels… overall this is, of course, not usable as training material — but it’s improving at a exponential pace.

We could actually make a DG game show out of this where each of us DG instructors gets a bell. Then we have 2 seconds to look at an infographic and decide whether it’s completely correct or not. This image below would get gonged pretty quick because of the infectious, flammable solid hazard. Dang, I would not want to catch that.