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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

EDITOR Andy Brown andy.brown@khl.com +44 (0)1892 786224

I met up with a couple of old school friends for drinks in London recently (it both heartens me that I have friends I have known for more than 30 years and makes me sad that I’m getting old) and one of them had recently been listening to a podcast on artificial intelligence and was keen to tell the two of us about its capabilities and potential.

Of course, this wasn’t news to either of us – for my part I’ve been using AI tools for years as well as reading and writing about their capabilities. It does show though how mainstream AI has become in the public conscience, and the debate about what our future with AI will look like is a very interesting and evocative one.

AI is already being used in construction at all levels – from contractors using it to help them refine their bids to the equipment on the site itself where many of the machines have a high level of semi automation to project monitoring. The goal, of course, is for AI to help make the construction industry more productive and efficient rather than to take anyone’s jobs away, although the idea that construction – so desperate for workers – would turn good people away is, quite frankly, more outlandish than anything AI could come up with.

In another packed issue we have a feature looking at the developments of medium and large excavators, take a look at seven of the world’s largest land reclamation projects, examine why 2024 has been called ‘the year of the bridge’, showcase Bauma China, and look at alterative fuels. All of this fine magazine was written and designed without any artificial intelligence – some might say without any intelligence at all, but that would just be cruel. Enjoy the issue.

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
EDITOR Andy Brown andy.brown@khl.com +44 (0)1892 786224
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