Artificial intelligence is making a significant impact in plastics manufacturing, but it’s not the artificial general intelligence (AGI) often associated with science fiction.
Conor Carlin, a past president of the Society of Plastics Engineers, is a consultant in the area of plastics and sustainability as president of Clefs Advisory LLC, and is a former general manager for Illig in North America. In an interview with PlasticsToday, he noted that what the industry is seeing deployed in plastics manufacturing today isn’t AGI — true artificial general intelligence capable of reasoning across domains the way humans do, which remains largely theoretical.
Instead, narrow AI applications, such as large language models trained on domain-specific content, computer vision systems for quality inspection, and predictive analytics, are driving real-world improvements. One of the most immediate applications of AI is knowledge preservation.
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