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Artificial Intelligence Increasingly a Reality on Job Sites

    “Open the pod bay doors, HAL.” From the creepily calm HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to the trigger-happy WOPR computer of WarGames, most everyone knows the trope of artificial intelligence gone awry. On today’s construction sites, however, the prospects for AI appear to be far rosier. A recent article in EnterpriseAI spotlights three new job site technologies that promise to improve construction safety and efficiency, without all the murder and mayhem. One of them, from Buildots, involves cameras mounted on workers’ hardhats, which collect data as the humans go about their workday.