[8A1] Distinguished Overview Lecture: Quantum physics and artificial intelligence: current challenges and opportunities in technical diagnostics and condition monitoring
R Burdzik
Silesian University of Technology, Poland
The current pace of scientific and technological development is unprecedented. Globalisation ensures that these changes are felt almost immediately everywhere. This also applies to areas of application that overlap endlessly. Consequently, it is of great importance to observe these changes and developments, to identify challenges and threats and to recognise the opportunities that arise from them. This paper attempts to analyse how the development of knowledge in physics and the pace of technological evolution, with its latest achievements, namely artificial intelligence and quantum computers, affect the validity of the approach and methods in technical diagnostics and condition monitoring. Furthermore, it identifies several challenges and opportunities arising from these changes and initiates a discussion on the confrontation of the current foundations and methods used in technical diagnostics with the fundamentals of elementary particle physics and quantum mechanics. Nevertheless, the principal objective of this paper is to prompt scientists and researchers engaged in the field of diagnostics and condition monitoring to observe the evolving environment and embrace the challenge of implementing novel foundations for describing physical reality in diagnostic methodologies. Let us commence the process of revisiting assumptions and discussing new problems and take up the challenge of expanding our knowledge and experimental practices.
