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Since artificial intelligence, especially the AI generative, has become widely available, technology has dominated headlines, as companies and workers are looking for answers and good practices.
Construction companies have been bombed with launches of companies that offer products supported by the AI, especially in the field of workplace safety.
“I think what is the biggest challenge our contractors have is that they are … frustrated because they get so fast,” said Greg Sizemore, vice president of labor development, safety, health and environmental for builders and contractors associated with Construction Dive.
In this complex landscape, security experts say that they have brought skepticism to innumerable launches, as they evaluate the best ways to implement the AI in their workflows to try to improve the safety of the workplace.
“We spend a lot of time telling our contractors:” Take care of what you take, “Sizemore said.” The precaution right now is that it does not take it in the nominal value. “
But the leaders of the industry who take advantage of the AI say that the good news is that the orientation for the use of generative tools is still the same: use it as a tool to accelerate work flows instead of replaced or added to existing processes.
Data and governance
In February, Skanska unveiled lateral, a Ai Chatbot. The tool is designed to help the company explore data catalogs of its numerous projects without introducing secret information or property in the public domain.
Built with the same technology as Chatgpt, users can ask Sidekick questions and answer with answers based on a collection of internal data that will remain inside the Skanska ownership cloud. The product is only internally used and will not be commercially sold.
“We can start taking advantage of the experience and knowledge of all Skanska so that,” well, I am not just learning from my own mistakes and avoiding these, I am learning from the mistakes of thousands and thousands of Skanska’s other projects, “said Will Senner, a senior vice president of Skanska.
Sidekick helps identify which projects and tasks is the highest risk, Senner said, assisted by the large amount of data collected by the Stockholm contractor and developer.
“The success of this effort will depend on the quality of the underlying information you have and the breadth and depth of this information,” said Senner.
The large amounts of information collected at jobs can be a good start, said Patrick Scarpati, director of Technology of Construction and Innovation at ABC. Even smaller builders usually incorporate photographs or security cameras into their work.
“There is now a lot of data that is transmitted to jobs with many digital project management platforms,” Scarpati told Construction Dive. “We are still learning as an industry like structuring all this, right? Governance of data, this is the true power of AI, right?”
CONSIGLI CONSTRUCTION CO., Milford, Massachusetts, has begun to take advantage of fixed cameras, Drone images and 360 -degree documentation for AI security analysis, said Jack Moran, principal director of the firm’s construction technology. CONSIGLI has also actively tested the Dronenedeploy Safety IA Platform, which captures and seeks to identify possible dangers on the site, in several K-12 projects and higher education with plans to use wider use.
Moran said that the contractor also uses it to collect data.
“We are also exploring AI, automatic learning and text boats to speed up the collection and management of security -related data, such as training records, certifications and material monitoring to improve and inform our safety operations,” Moran told Construction Dive. “In addition, we are evaluating how natural language tools can help teams inform, consult and recover the safety documentation more easily in the project’s life cycle.”
To know what is not
Sizemore said that when talking to ABC members about the use of AI, often someone makes a “terminator” reference, which indicates the war on technology and its impact. The comments are a joke, Sizemore said, but they represent a real concern.
“These are leaders of the companies that go,” my employees will be replaced in XA cause of the AI? “, Sizemore said.” And we always do it again in education and understand what I can offer you. “
Senner emphasized the AI is not an additional tool for an existing work flow. Nor will a worker be completely replaced, especially not someone with experience.
“In our opinion, the final game of this is not Chatbots, right?” This is how we can offer the appropriate security views to our people at the right time. “
And, unlike the objectives of the box office films, this human element should remain, Moran said.
“It is important to emphasize that we do not treat AI as a substitute for the human judgment. It is a supplement that helps us to climb our attention and to gain better visibility through complex and quick jobs,” said Moran.
