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I just manage budgets. It very likely could but I don’t know if it would be able to trouble shoot issues.
As someone who used to work in construction management and now works tools - I could see why you would think this. However, it's biased towards management and not the people actually doing the work. On the best job sites, issues are resolved at the lowest levels of the management hierarchy by tradesmen. On the worst job sites, everything gets "RFI-ed" to death with clarifications and schedule impacts and endless meetings. I think that some form of AI could get rid of a few "Senior Assistant Project Management Office Engineers" and probably help save companies some money. But, then how would their sales team be able to brag about their "process" for making sure each and every potential project goes smoothly?I think AI, automation, and machine learning are going to radically change the way humans function. I don’t think it’s going to be as cut and dry as AI replacing jobs per se, although I do think a lot of jobs will be redundant.
I work in the civil engineering and construction world, in a technology company that is paving the way for a lot of this technology.
I think we are going to see the majority of machines on large earthwork projects and highway projects be autonomous in the next 5 to 10 years.
I think software is going to get way more simplified. Complex project management, estimating and design software will be able to simply do what you tell it. (Ie. Build me a road from point A to Point B)
I think it will be leveraged in health care, where you provide a blood sample for example, or take some sort of test or diagnostic, and the AI powered “health consultant” gives you an accurate diagnosis that’s based on the entire breadth of collected human knowledge and experience on the particular subject.
In many ways, I think it’s going to enhance and help the way many people do their jobs, but I do also think many will be quickly redundant. Fascinating times for sure
I think AI will seriously change the job market but people will always need a person to blame when things go wrong so I think it will be limited to very particular roles.
I'm in a related field...your job security is in locating that buried tank cover. And extracting that cover from the top of the tank after it hasn't been removed for a decade plus.Hard to get a computer to clear a sewer line or pump a septic tank. I think I'll be ok.
preferably when some idiot backfilled and poured a footer over the tank for his detached garage...I'm in a related field...your job security is in locating that buried tank cover. And extracting that cover from the top of the tank after it hasn't been removed for a decade plus.