ChatGPT has placed Artificial Intelligence front and center in everyone's consciousness.  Recently, Scott Pelley, in his interview with Google CEO Sundar Pichai exclaimed on 60 Minutes that it's coming and you need to be prepared.  Not just what it can do for you, but also how it may affect your job.  According to Pichai, those likely to be affected include "...knowledge workers. People like writers, accountants, architects and, ironically, software engineers. AI writes computer code too." Our first mission at Construction AI is to fill you in and get you started using ChatGPT to assist in your day-to-day activities, including business development, design and project management to contract closeout and claims.

News and developments by hands-on expert

To accomplish our missions, we sought out experienced users who have already developed expertise in their field.  Every two weeks, AI Construction News will present construction-specific articles from experienced industry, including:

  • safety engineers
  • architects
  • contractors
  • data analysts
  • construction consultants
  • construction managers and project specialists
    (schedules, project controls, risks), and/or
  • attorneys

Feature topics 

In addition, AI Construction News will feature articles to help you understand what the tools are, what they do and how to use them.  Topics that you can look forward to in the upcoming weeks and months include:

  • Prompt engineering - tips and tutorials
  • AI drawing tools: Dall-E, Midjourney
  • Plug-ins, extensions and AI productivity apps
  • Data analytics: using data metrics for more accurate project assessment and predictive decisions
  • An ongoing column to track new releases from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and others
  • Check-in with established construction application vendors that have introduced AI features into the programs

Start on the ground floor and learn with us at your own pace

This will be a learning experience for us as well. Trust us; we didn't know what some of the above terms were two months ago! We have many questions. For example, what exactly is "training a model?"  Are we training ChatGPT? Can we develop and train our own company model? Or just a model for a specific construction project?  We hope to address these and many more new questions in the coming months and years. 

Community and sharing

In addition to our own editorial efforts, our readers can provide feedback on individual articles or participate in our exclusive site topic forums. We would not be surprised if we and our readers learn as much from you as you do from us.  We're confident many of our readers will have developed productive chat prompts and process that they will want to share.

Since all this AI stuff is new and as we are collectively in the learning process together, consider yourself on the ground floor.  You'll be learning as you go and will have much less to catch up on than if you wait 3, 6 or 12 months or more.  

We look forward to you joining us on this new journey.