07/24/2024

Automation Group Launches LLM Tool

The tool could expand membership and help growth

The International Society of Automation has created an AI-driven large language model (LLM) that’s designed to provide support for current members, attract new ones, and strengthen its international connections.

The LLM, named Mimo, was formally announced on July 11 but has been available since late June, said Jason Wampler, CAE, ISA Managing Director of IT. (The name Mimo is a reference to the engineering term “multiple input, multiple output.”) Mimo is trained on material from Pub Hub, ISA’s repository of proprietary information—white papers, articles, webinars and more—to answer user questions relevant to the field.

ISA leadership began discussions about creating Mimo late last year. "We already had a knowledge base—our file-protected document-rights platform that shares our white papers, our standards, our articles, and so forth,” Wampler said. "We were asked [by the ISA board] to try to find better ways to surface that."

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