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Three months by 2025, the Race of artificial intelligence weapons Continue for builders. Great contractors, such as in London Balfour Beatty and Swedish builder SkanskaThey are developing their own tools based on AI to help their construction processes.
Other builders use technological solutions that come from sellers. Marietta, Cork Howard, based in Georgia, for example, Use Billy the Bot, Appointed and created by Mountain View, California Software Firm, Stampli. With technology, the team is able to reduce the time, effort and focus needed to keep track of the billing of invoices that the firm receives and needs to process on a certain day.
Nor is it about finance, and its uses were the talk of the exhibition A Engineering News-Record’s Futurech Conference in 2024Where builders discussed how they used it to check compliance contracts and increase job safety.
Now, the next iteration of the AI is hitting the construction industry door: Ai Agent. A type of artificial intelligence that the technological giant Nvidia stated in a publication on the Blog of January 6, will act as “Robot of knowledge“Technology complies with the promise of helping industries, not just builders, automating their work. But, if the buzz around it is just a real potential, it can be difficult for builders to analyze, as they consider their uses in their daily work.
What is Ai Agentic?
AI AGENTIC is an evolution of the AI generative: it is still formed in specific data sets and users can still interact with it through a chat or message. However, what technology goes aside is its ability to act autonomously.
“Ai Agentica represents the following wave in the evolution of the generative IA. It allows applications to pass beyond Chatbot’s simple interactions to address complex problems and in various steps through sophisticated reasoning and planning, “wrote Nvidia.
In other words, Ai Agentica takes another step.
For example, a builder can ask a generative bot to find out how much money he owed to a specific concrete subcontractor by 2024. The BOT would respond to this consultation based on this unique interaction.
On the contrary, the Agentica could create a plan around invoices and invoices autonomously, with human action.
Barry Mostert, principal director of the artificial intelligence and analytics of the Oracle Technology Giant, wrote in a publication on the February 10 blog that Agènic Ai puts the construction industry “On the edge of a transformative jump. “Mostert stated that AI agents could help builders improve security, optimize their costs and mitigate the risk proactively.
Patrick Murphy, the CEO of the estimate and the Togal, AI takeoff software creator, said that a AI agent could have a great deal of operating as an employee.
“For example, instead of asking a AI to write a few plans, then review them, you could tell a Agent to generate multiple options, analyze all the data, select the best and even propose new ideas based on current market trends,” said Murphy. “Then I could check it again in 48 hours with a complete report.”
Is it worth the drum?
Although some analysts expect companies to do Quickly get the rewards From the agents of the AI, others are expressing caution, specifically with regard to security concerns, Cio Dive reported in January.
“Although in the first year it can be overwhelmed, we will see some interesting results this year and also some epic failures,” Cio Dive Vladimir, a world leader in Bost Consulting Group’s digital technology and advantage, told Cio Dive Vladimir.
Senthil Kumar, Slate Technologies’ Chief of Technology, a content company that creates Technology and for the real estate industries, construction and investment, is adopting a more measured approach. Kumar noted that the IA in construction is full of failed promises of complete automation, but that technology could help contractors that carefully show it to achieve a creation of its peers.
Kumar said that Agentica could, for example, help builders manage their schedules, manage risk and compliance, optimize how resources are used and providing supply chain interruptions. But knowing that it is not a technological care, everything is important.
“Of course, there is no magical transformation at night and, if expected, people will be disappointed,” Kumar told Dive Conduct by email. “Those who integrate this AI strategically will get a significant competitive advantage.”
In fact, other experts are far from certain of the potential of the Agents and doubt in their abilities today.
“We have done a thorough review of the Agents of the IA in production, analyzing their goals, operating mechanisms and the extension of their autonomous behavior,” said Craig Le Clair, Cambridge’s main analyst, in the Massachusetts Market Research Firm, Forrester, in Cio Dive in an email. “Basically, most agents are far from the agency. This is the future and it does not exist yet. “
Not to Autopilot
Kumar also warned contractors about possible red flags that they could find with sellers who could sell a good product.
These range from a AI system that cannot explain its production or inappropriate integration strategy, mainly performance of investment or a guarantee of complete autonomy. An optimal system, Kumar said, needs human supervision in loop.
“Selecting the wrong seller, adoption of suboptimal technology or the execution of a defective implementation strategy can lead to operational inefficiencies, non -made potential and wasted investments,” Kumar wrote.
