The shift offers a range of benefits across the construction life cycle.
The results are interesting in that they showed, unsurprisingly that different individuals and cultures gave different responses.Whose do we use?
These decisions have real-life implications.. ‘We better be sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose we really desire,’ Norbert Weiner stated in 1960..In 2021, Stewart Russell OBE (Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley) in his Reith Lectures expressed some principles that he had co-developed to make the development of AI positive and safe.. Altruism – AI is there solely to improve human outcomes and purpose.Uncertainty – the objectives, purpose and outcomes will remain uncertain.
Learning from humans – there needs to be a dynamic process, constantly checking back and developing understanding.. Why is this important?Russell asks you to imagine that you have a robot looking after your children.
You give it the clear purpose of keeping the children safe and fed with home cooked food.
All sounds great.Digital models built within these tools are made with the logic and rules necessary to represent the real-world process and constrain the system.
These are typically based around the flow of operations, their dependencies and the resources required to complete them.However, one does not need to rigidly prescribe any of these aspects in detail, or hard-code them, to derive the results, but rather use the simulation engine to logically sequence operations and how resources are used.. A simple example of this could be a set of assembly operations occurring simultaneously, which use both shared components – bolts, for example – and resources, such as an operator or a wrench.
Creating this model in a simulation tool would require defining individual assembly sequences and required resources at each step, the resources available and, depending on the requirements of the project, component stock, transport, and necessary aspects of the supply chain.When the model is run, the simulation engine dynamically uses resources and components to complete the tasks and the model statistics derived could indicate how both individual processes, and the system, would perform..