Artificial Intelligence vs Infrastructure with Rene Morkos

The Infrastructure Podcast

In today's podcast we discuss the way artificial intelligence is set to transform infrastructure performance.

In the short time since generative AI tools such ChatGPT and array of AI driven apps have emerged and become mainstream, our daily interactions with data has changed dramatically.
There should therefore, be absolutely no doubt in anyone’s minds that AI has the power to truly transform the way we live, work and play.

Notwithstanding the clear – and potentially well founded – fears around the unintended consequences of accelerating the use of AI technology, few can rule out the potential for change that is around the corner.

So what does the technology hold for infrastructure design construction and management sector? A sector which, after all has been synonymous with slow digital uptake and poor productivity and performance for decades?

Well it is clear that the use of digitisation and data across the planning, design, delivery and deployment of major infrastructure programmes is already becoming key to improving outcomes as we move beyond the use of Building Information Modelling towards greater use and exploitation of data and digital systems across the sector.

My guest today truly understands this potential. Rene Morkos, is chief executive of ALICE Technologies – which has developed the World’s first Generative Construction Simulator - we’ll come back to that!

He’s also a professor at Stanford University where he gained a PhD in amongst other things applied Artificial Intelligence techniques and is a true champion for technological change across the entire infrastructure delivery process.
Resources
ALICE Technologies website
About ALICE
Industrial Strategy: Construction Sector Deal
UK government BIM mandate 2016
Building magazine profile of Rene