In a late 2024 webinar for IEC members, BISCI’s Ryan Davis presented Future Trends and Innovations in Low Voltage Technology, to explore fault-managed power as well as artificial intelligence (AI) tools in industry education. BICSI is a professional association supporting the advancement of the information and communications technology (ICT) profession. Ryan is a BISCI training delivery specialist with 15 years in the ICT industry.
“Both fault managed power and large language model assistance in education represent the integration of innovative technologies driving efficiency, safety, and knowledge transfer in the future,” Ryan says.
He describes fault managed power as a system that monitors and limits energy faults to ensure safety and reliability and says it’s especially important in environments requiring uninterrupted safe power delivery.
“This technology is going to bridge gaps between traditional power distribution and our growing demands for safe, scalable, and intelligent energy systems,” he adds.
In the webinar, Ryan offers examples that show how fault managed power offers customizable solutions to meet diverse operational demands improving safety, efficiency, and flexibility.
“Fault managed power has many advantages,” summarizes Ryan. “It is a safe, efficient, cost effective, scalable, versatile, reliable, environmentally friendly, and technologically advanced solution for modern power distribution. It meets the needs of today’s complex infrastructure while preparing for future demands. It also is recognized by the National Electrical Code®.”
In the second part of his presentation, Ryan walks us through how he engaged with AI, specifically ChatGPT, to create his webinar content and slide presentation.
“I know a lot of people think about AI tools as a means of replacing human beings,” Ryan acknowledges. “I want to look at it from a perspective of how can we use AI to enhance the skills and things that human beings bring to all things.”
Ryan’s experience using AI to create his webinar cemented his belief that AI serves as versatile and scalable tool in adult education to complement human trainers by streamlining content creation, engaging learners, and providing on-demand support.
“While not a replacement for human expertise, it enables innovative approaches to learning and knowledge transfer which positions industries for continuous growth and adaptability,” he concludes.
Ryan shares his process using ChatGPT to create his webinar. First, he fed the chatbot a high-level idea of what he was trying to accomplish. This included type of presentation, due date, topics explored, and the websites he’d like used. ChapGPT gave him a framework, and he continued to use AI to elaborate on certain areas finding it extremely helpful for content acquisition but sadly ineffective for actual slide preparation.
“I asked it to make the slides and that didn’t go so well,” Ryan says. “Nothing was formatted and actually none of the text lined up. It just kind of threw it in the middle, so I ended up having to format everything myself — move the titles, change the font, and arrange the bullets.”
Finding appropriate images was also a combined AI and human process. ChatGPT actually gave Ryan a huge list of images to select from different websites that related to the topic of each slide.
“I started pulling from those image suggestions and adding them into the presentation,” Ryan explains. “But the next challenge that came up was that those images were copywritten; they were owned by someone. My next endeavor was to see how AI tools could help me with that. I asked ChatGPT to redraw an image or reimagine an image for me.”
After detailed discussion with his AI assistant, the assistant acknowledged that ‘it doesn’t do well with words and images.’
“There are language models that can do this, but the unpaid version of ChatGPT is not it,” says Ryan. “ChapGPT AI tools also lack human ability to prioritize key points. I struggled as it seemed to give me oversimplification of complex topics, industry-specific context, or technical nuances. It requires additional time to review and revise content for accuracy and appropriateness but it gives you quick access to large databases and perspectives. So currently, AI is not able to replace the human input. We are very much necessary in this process.”
View Ryan’s webinar and slides to see additional learnings from his experience, including examples of elements AI successfully does now, like facilitating cross-department training and bridging knowledge gaps by tailoring content to diverse teams with varying expertise.
“AI tools offer the potential to enhance learning, streamline workflows, and support knowledge transfer,” Ryan concludes. “Together with fault managed power, they showcase how embracing cutting-edge solutions can create safer, more efficient systems and smarter approaches to knowledge sharing.”
IEC Member Access to Webinars
Future Trends and Innovations in Low Voltage Technology is part of a three-part low voltage series from BISCI. Recordings are available to IEC members.
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