Georgia businesses are applying artificial intelligence to routine marketing, accounting, and hiring work well ahead of the fully automated factories that dominate much of the public conversation. Atlanta Magazine published a special report on August 25 examining six sectors of the state technology economy, with artificial intelligence leading the list alongside health tech, data centers, cybersecurity, software development, and fintech.
Aaron Stebner, codirector of Georgia Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing and a professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Georgia Tech, described where adoption actually sits today. "Most of what I'm seeing is open, broad adoption of AI assistance for things like writing, image creation, marketing, accounting, and matching job descriptions in the hiring process," he told the magazine. He placed self-optimizing factories decades away and said research remains short of a single application that spans an entire system of machines.
Several manufacturing examples in the state are further along than that caution suggests. Kubota Manufacturing broke ground in 2023 on a $190 million expansion in Gainesville built to produce tractor frontend loaders without a human welder. JE Dunn Construction deployed an agile mobile robot nicknamed Astro to monitor job sites and capture data through Aptitude, its information technology offshoot.
Staffing is another application taking shape. PromptOwl builds custom AI digital workers trained for specific business roles that run inside its own workplace platform, handling data analysis, customer service inquiries, and operational workflows. Chief Growth Officer Stacey Schneider said clients can realize close to four dollars of value for every dollar spent on AI agents within the first year.
Source: Atlanta Magazine - https://www.atlantamagazine.com/gabiz/artifical-intelligence-cybersecurity-healthcare-data-centers/