Most business sectors and many workers are secretly worried that AI will be taking over soon, leaving them behind. And, that might be more or less true over the next 10 years depending on your sector, what you do and the uniqueness or quality of your skills.
Without moralising about the societal and economic rights and wrongs of an AI and work revolution, there’s one sector where I’d welcome it tomorrow.
That’s the construction of high-rise strata title apartment buildings to bring uniform, consistent and higher construction quality since there have been no apparent improvements over the last 75 years. And, arguably construction quality is getting worse.
This interesting @NYT article by @PatrickSisson, A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job, discusses what can [and can’t] be done with AI in the construction sector. He suggests that rather than robots doing building work, intelligent devices will bring, collect and share data to construction sites, workers and inspectors to avoid mistakes, identify them when they occur, and record what has been done for record keeping and later analysis or use when needed.
Read more about it here …