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In a safety-sensitive industry for which accuracy is paramount, an artificial intelligence platform that delivers usable results just 50% of the time might seem to be a nonstarter. Yet for Xcert AI, which aims to reduce the burden associated with aerospace certification and compliance paperwork, 50% is a selling point — because the company wants to support human experts, not replace them.
“What we’re building is an assistant,” Marc-Elian Bégin, the Swiss startup’s CEO and cofounder, told The Air Current in an interview last year, explaining that his platform doesn’t pretend to be a substitute for human expertise. “We don’t want to replace the human; we want to augment the capability of the human in that space.”
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Reconnecting with TAC in January in advance of Xcert’s first official product release on Feb. 16, Bégin said the platform demonstrated expert-level output in approximately 50% of cases during a six-month trial with the European Space Agency (pictured), which explored whether it could be used to generate formal system and software requirements for a next-generation mission control system. That corresponded to an impressive 57% reduction in effort, even after factoring in time for review and corrections, he said.
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