IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DATA

摘要

When it comes to the construction industry machine learning means many things. However, at its core, it all comes back to one thing: data. The more data that is produced through telematics, the more advanced artificial intelligence (AI) becomes, due to it having more data to learn from. The more complex the data the better for AI, and as AI becomes more advanced its decision-making improves. This means that construction is becoming more efficient thanks to a loop where data and AI are feeding into each other. Machine learning is an application of AI that provides systems the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. As Jim Coleman, director of global IP at Trimble says succinctly, "Data is the fuel for AI." Coleman expands on that statement and the notion that AI and data are in a loop, helping each other to develop. "The more data we can get, the more problems we can solve and the more processing we can throw on top of that, the broader set of problems we'll be able to solve," he comments.