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What does NeuraLink have to do with the construction industry?

Years ago, an average conference began with the words “Artificial intelligence is the most important thing we have ever invented for humanity. More important than fire or speech.”

It didn’t seem realistic, just as it didn’t seem realistic when another conference said that radiologists should stop training because deep learning in CT scans means that software can already do a better job than humans at detecting cancerous tumors.

But there’s also this NeuraLink project. The principle is that they can detect the electrical signals of a sighted person’s brain, a deep learning algorithm looks for correlations with a machine vision perception, and then it’s all fed back.

“Neuralink promises to restore strong,
intact vision and full body functionality”

And if it really works within 6 months, I am convinced that for a blind person it will be more important than fire and cooked food.

But it also goes further. The way our children will communicate with the machines. Speech and drawing will probably replace the keyboard first. Then, in a few tens of years, the level of thought will come.

Meta seems like a good idea now, but it is a huge investment.

And maybe Elon Musk is right, and NeuraLink will do the human-machine interface for the Matrix movie in 15 years.

And maybe we won’t have to travel, as NeuraLink enables the mixed reality and meta experience of VR glasses. But data centers already produce 3 times more CO2 emissions than the entire aviation industry. How does this affect our environment?

Everything is changing and we’ve reached an age where by the time we’ve achieved efficiency with one set of sophisticated technologies, another technology comes along and upsets the whole thing.

Our values are changing and the focus is no longer on achieving efficiency, but on the ability to change. On the openness and speed of adaptation.

I see the construction industry.

And even if in many cases our systems are still slow compared to NeuraLink, they are already 5 times more efficient than traditional workflow.

For this reason alone, BIM-based design, construction, and operation of a complex project are well worth the effort. In short, it pays to bother setting up our data models

But what I think is an even bigger possibility is that in a few years’ time, interpreting this data with AI will be a matter of minutes.

This will then become a huge competitive advantage.

It can be critical for the competitiveness of a company. It can multiply the purchase price of a property, the running costs of a property development, or even the payback period.

And when these solutions become available, it will be a huge disadvantage in a fast-paced world if we only start then to measure the physical parameters of buildings, upload and validate static data, or collect usage and operational data.

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