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A small business guide to AI
October 28th, 2024
Artificial Intelligence (AI) was one of the hot topics at the Advanced Textiles Association’s Expo this year. In his show floor presentation, “Unlocking AI: a small business guide to harnessing the power of artificial intelligence,” Adam Penner, AP Consulting and Technical Services, unpacked the Hollywood hype to consider how AI can be used effectively by […]
AI and textiles: it’s already here
February 26th, 2024
This image relating to digital design was generated using OpenAI’s text-to-image generative AI tool, DALL-E. Provided by Caitlin Knowles/AFFOA. Editor’s note: Two researchers with expertise in advanced technologies—and smart textiles, in particular—responded to questions about artificial intelligence and its future in the industry. Irmandy Wicaksono (IW) is a research assistant in the MIT Media Lab and […]
AI’s promise for the textiles industry
February 12th, 2024
Image: Dreamstime. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a kitchen table discussion point these days in many households, and it's gained global prominence since serious discussions on this subject surfaced in the 2017 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. While AI has been touted as an enabler of growth, concerns are surfacing regarding privacy issues and […]
Catching up to AI
February 12th, 2024
The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential influence on virtually every aspect of our lives is now upon us. Exactly what it can do is understood by relatively few. What it will do in the near future and beyond is understood on a continuum with optimists on one end and those sounding the alarm on […]
Looking ahead: the big picture
January 29th, 2024
Trends in the textile industry are apparently not easy to pin down; market researchers who study trends as a business agree on some, but not all. The degree of detail researched impacts the outcome, of course, and even market niche investigations generate hefty reports. Given the extensive reach of textile materials and products in the […]
Educated guesswork
January 15th, 2024
On a semi-regular basis, this publication has run a “year in review” feature in January. That may mean the previous year, or it could include the year that’s just begun. This January, it means both. We are starting, logically, with the previous year, but the upcoming feature (“Looking ahead”) may seem like déjà vu all […]