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The A.I. Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Hallucination Engine can change society by showing as-is and to-be next state. Two use-cases: new infrastructure installation

The A.I. Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Hallucination Engine can change society by showing as-is and to-be next state. Two use-cases: new infrastructure installation or upgrade and time interval inspection tracking ideal-case vs real world condition. Suppose a lazy contractor skips steps and cuts corners, or a pathological contractor builds the thing and pulls the thing apart over and over again when all that was needed was a one and done, or the change is for the worse. A civil engineer can walk around with an iPad and iPhone to check-in the master plan.

Jeff_Brown 4y ago
You mean AI can detect when a plumber is bulshitting me? That sounds great, could you elaborate?
- coldtea 4y ago
  Given a few sensors that could be installed on the house's pipes, one can imagine several ways an AI can check that all is good. Same for checking blueprints for quality/validity and purchases the plumber says are "needed"...
majormajor 4y ago
You need to replace the civil engineer there (in today's world this is an inspector, I don't know for sure if they are professional engineers or not) for it to be useful, but you still need to have someone not working for the contractor who's incentivized to fake it. The trouble with many of those construction examples is that they're point in time. Installer fucks up how the windows are installed re: flashing and water-proofing, but then puts the siding over it... the error is now completely hidden. You could automated the inspection by AI photo analysis of every single window install on the project, say - but we could already do that for the inspection vs sending someone out, and send the photos to the expert instead, and we don't. Whether that's for lack of incentive to improve, or for ability to go deeper out of distrust for builders? I don't know.

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The A.I. Monte Carlo Ray Tracing Hallucination Engine can change society by showing as-is and to-be next state. Two use-cases: new infrastructure installation

by abudabi123 4y ago

Jeff_Brown 4y ago
You mean AI can detect when a plumber is bulshitting me? That sounds great, could you elaborate?
- coldtea 4y ago
  Given a few sensors that could be installed on the house's pipes, one can imagine several ways an AI can check that all is good. Same for checking blueprints for quality/validity and purchases the plumber says are "needed"...
majormajor 4y ago
You need to replace the civil engineer there (in today's world this is an inspector, I don't know for sure if they are professional engineers or not) for it to be useful, but you still need to have someone not working for the contractor who's incentivized to fake it. The trouble with many of those construction examples is that they're point in time. Installer fucks up how the windows are installed re: flashing and water-proofing, but then puts the siding over it... the error is now completely hidden. You could automated the inspection by AI photo analysis of every single window install on the project, say - but we could already do that for the inspection vs sending someone out, and send the photos to the expert instead, and we don't. Whether that's for lack of incentive to improve, or for ability to go deeper out of distrust for builders? I don't know.