壳牌集团引入人工智能的策略初见成效曲柄

据道琼斯11月27日消息，壳牌集团已经实施两年的将人工智能(AI)嵌入到其各个运营环节中的策略正在帮助这家石油巨头降低成本、避免设备故障。

这家拥有约8.4万名员工的英国-荷兰公司在不同的运营环节中嵌入了280个AI项目，其中包括用于确定在哪里钻探石油的AI项目、用来提醒设备可能发生故障的AI项目，以及引导钻头穿过页岩矿床的AI项目。

壳牌数据科学总经理Dan Jeavons表示，公司正在经历为期数年的数字化转型，旨在提高效率和安全性，并减少碳排放。

Jeavons表示：“我们正在利用机器来精准地处理许多人工工作，那些事情让人工做的话要花很多时间”。

唐绍红 摘译自 道琼斯

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Shell's Companywide AI Effort Shows Early Returns

Royal Dutch Shell PLC's two-year-old strategy to embed artificial intelligence across its operations is helping the oil giant lower costs and avoid downtime.

The Anglo-Dutch company, which has roughly 84,000 employees, has 280 AI projects in various stages, including ones that determine where to drill for oil, that flag equipment likely to malfunction, and that steer drill bits through shale deposits.

Dan Jeavons, Shell's general manager of data science, said the company is on a multiyear digital-transformation drive to improve efficiency and safety and to cut carbon emissions.

"We're using machines to do a lot of the [manual] work accurately that would take humans a very long time," Mr. Jeavons said.