Transcript excerpt of a speaker discussing the role of AI in model checking: AI can help evaluate assumptions and reasoning, but traditional tools (e.g., Excel) can be faster and better for mechanical checks. The speaker warns against relying on AI for detecting mechanical or structural flaws in models.
The funny thing about checking a model, if you know the right skills, it's not very time consuming. Sometimes I would run AI to do a test, and then I would do it using just a default Excel tool. And it would be faster to do it with the default tool than to kind of ask AI to kind of get it working. So I think that as these tools get better, the checking might be in a different way. It might become less about formula, construction, and logic, because there are pretty simple ways in Excel to do that on your own. I think a good way where they might help you is to say, hey, AI, am I making reasonable assumptions? Am I thinking about this the right way? Do you think you assumptions seem reasonable? But I would not be relying on any of the tools yet to check for true mechanical problems or flaws in a model.
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