It will run an engineering analysis on it, and it will tell you which cracks to fix by flying a drone. No more engineers dangling off of a bridge. Randy 00:14:47.316 - 00:14:48.636 Yeah, right.
KPReddy 00:14:48.668 - 00:15:40.308
So when you look at how a bridge collapses, like every month in our country, because we have not maintained our bridges, they're solving a real problem. I hate to say it, but they're taking engineers out of the way. But then when I talk to engineers, they're like, we don't want to do that anyway. Who do you think wants to dangle off of a bridge and inspect them? Part of the reason why many bridges in our country have not been inspected. You can't find people that do it. Everybody's very busy. Do I really want to send an engineer out for $50 an hour to climb on a bridge because that's all the government will pay or do? I want to deploy them on a commercial project, billing them at 150 an hour. So those are all real things that are happening now. This isn't the future. I look at 20 startups a week, and half of them now are AI. But I'll tell you, five years ago, when I started, most of them were AI.
They just didn't talk about it. It wasn't in the vocabulary of discussion.
Randy 00:15:40.444 - 00:16:15.496 And it’s so funny as you mentioned you just happened to bring up the example of bridges. I know for a fact that when they talked about the whole infrastructure programs throughout the country, every state has its own infrastructure list of projects to be done. I know here in Arkansas where I live, I think there are some ridiculous number of bridges that need to be inspected and repaired. And what you're talking about with aren.ai would certainly help speed up that process and allow engineers to probably cover way more ground than they can cover right now. KPReddy 00:16:15.648 - 00:18:03.180 And I think one of the things that comes up, and I'll tell you, whenever an industry tries to default back to, well, what about regulatory?
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