AI and ChatGPT Benefits, Implications, and Expectations in Engineering

Abstract

This chapter offers a comprehensive examination of ChatGPT's evolution and its potential implications in engineering, with a specific focus on the pivotal role of artificial intelligence (AI). It provides a detailed analysis of the model's architecture, capabilities, and applications across various engineering domains, highlighting significant advancements in natural language understanding, generation, and task completion. The discussion delves into ChatGPT's capacity to comprehend and generate human-like text responses across diverse contexts, leveraging its transformer architecture and self-attention mechanisms. Moreover, the chapter thoroughly explores how ChatGPT aids engineers in different facets of the engineering process, including design optimization, technical documentation, problem-solving, code generation, simulation, and ethical compliance. Additionally, it outlines future research directions for ChatGPT and engineering, emphasizing advancements in novel applications, ethical considerations, integration with emerging technologies, and interdisciplinary collaboration.