Digital experts examine gemstones
Lucerne/Neuchâtel - At Gübelin Gem Lab in Lucerne, specialists are now being supported by a digital expert when assessing gemstones. The artificial intelligence was developed by Gübelin together with the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM).
The Gübelin Gem Lab in Lucerne examines the authenticity and origin of colored gemstones such as emeralds, sapphires, and rubies. Now, the gemstone specialists at Gübelin can be supported by a digital expert during this. The artificial intelligence-based software has been developed by Gübelin together with the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) in Neuchâtel.
The Gemtelligence project was started in 2020 and was successfully completed at the end of last year. Now, according to a press release from CSEM, the “digital super-expert for gemstones” for Gübelin’s specialists “takes care of the extensive interpretation of analytical data”. The federal government supported Gemtelligence as an official Innosuisse project due to its innovative potential.
Gübelin and CSEM were able to rely on a data registry of tens of thousands of gemstones analyzed by Gübelin and Gübelin’s reference stones for the development of the digital expert. Philipp Schmid, Head of the Industry 4.0 and Machine Learning Section at CSEM, commented in the press release: “This means our application can combine optical spectral analyses with chemical properties and undertake large artificial intelligence extractions.” However, he adds that it is not enough to feed unfiltered datasets into artificial intelligence. The correct, usable results can only be achieved if the data is linked with additional information, such as the experience of human experts. He went on to say: “ Everything else is, and sadly always will be, essentially junk data.”
