Technology Predictions for Construction: AI and ML - Constructech

Last week, I started a blog series, looking at some of the loftiest technology predictions for 2020 and beyond, and how it will impact construction specifically. Last week's topic was the IoT (Internet of Things), and this week I would like to dive into AI (artificial intelligence) and ML (machine learning). Now, before we look at predictions for where the market is headed, let's take a quick minute to define these terms. Too often, people use the acronyms, IoT, AI, and ML interchangeably, but they are in fact very different. Quite simply, AI is the data or the intelligence that tells a machine what to do, while ML studies previous datasets and makes predictions for future datasets.