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OPINION
AI is already here
We must adapt or we could miss out on an opportunity to transform the future of the AEC industry.
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on the Engineering Management Institute’s blog, linked here.
I recently had the opportunity to attend Zweig Group’s Minds & Machines Symposium in Nashville, Tennessee. The event was a very interesting and in-depth look into the world of artificial intelligence and the inevitable impact its implementation will have on our industry. It might come as a bit of a shock, but at this very moment there are already more than 60,000 AI companies across the globe, with more than 18,000 founded in the United States. That’s a huge amount!
Matthew Douglas
That means AI is already here. If you haven’t seen it yet, you will very soon. We in the AEC space may feel disconnected from AI, but it will certainly infiltrate our industry. In fact, it already has, although not in mass consumption, yet. The Engineering Management Institute publishes a podcast focused on this topic, the AEC Engineering Technology Podcast. Let’s do a brief overview of what Zweig Group’s Minds & Machines event covered:
we could see AI being used in the foreseeable future. ■ AI across AEC sectors. This session took a deeper dive into the particular sectors of AEC and how AI is currently molding its way into different use cases. For instance, Nvidia is currently working on a 3D modeling application to rival the likes of industry titans like Autodesk and Bentley. Interestingly enough, this software will reach over into the asset management/public infrastructure industry too, once geolocation services are added into the mix which will challenge
AI 101. This session summarized the AI technologies that would be discussed at the symposium, a brief look at the current applications in the AEC space, and ideas of where
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THE ZWEIG LETTER JANUARY 22, 2024, ISSUE 1521
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