Executive Brief

Executive Brief on GenAI: Manufacturing

Manufacturers have a valuable opportunity to create a win-win-win scenario: use GenAI to upskill and reskill the labor force, streamline processes to cut costs, and navigate a hostile economic and regulatory environment. But getting started isn’t easy. In addition to hallucination and security issues, in-house built tools cost twice as much as provider-based solutions. With Vectara’s RAG-as-a-Service GenAI solution, manufacturers can embed GenAI quickly and easily without the risk of data or privacy violations — and without a data science or machine learning team.

One of the biggest risks with generative AI is its tendency to hallucinate or provide false answers. These hallucinations, which happen with all LLMs, are usually subtle, often sounding entirely plausible even when wholly fabricated. Their plausibility makes them more difficult to detect and, thus, more dangerous than obviously incorrect information. This could be disastrous in manufacturing, where the accuracy of data underpins worker safety and productivity. Vectara is an end-to-end platform for embedding powerful generative AI features into applications with extraordinary results. Built on a solid hybrid-search core, Vectara delivers the shortest path to a correct answer/action through a safe, secure, and trusted entry point.