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What’s Driving Data Centers
Peggy talks about the uptick in data centers and the top priorities, top challenges, and top opportunities for data centers. She says data centers will be one of the big topics of conversation for 2025—much like gen AI (artificial intelligence) was a huge topic of conversation for 2024. She also discusses: The top priority among… -
AI Use Cases, Limitations, and Opportunities
Tom Bradicich, chief product officer and CTO, Arete, returns to continue the discussion with Peggy Smedley around AI (artificial intelligence) and how AI integration is impacting vertical markets. He shares use cases in healthcare, automotive, and utilities. They also discuss: The importance of attacking both the business process and the technology. AI limitations, 3 risk… -
How to Age in Place
Peggy Smedley and Kristen Garrett, manager of market research, Consumer Technology Assn., talk about what consumers are going to need to age in place. She says those aged 50 and older represents 46% of the U.S. adult population, and last year we saw 11,000 people turning 65 per day. They also discuss: Trends about aging…
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Like many industries, the healthcare industry is facing a shortage of skilled physicians, including a shortage of roughly 20,000 surgeons in the next 10 years. Enter AI (artificial intelligence)-powered surgical technology. Traditional surgical navigation systems often rely on static 2D imagery. Proprio Paradigm’s platform leverages AI to enhance precision, which ultimately means more data and insights to help address the critical global worker shortage gap. Here is how this can help in healthcare: Address unmet medical needs. Lead to better surgical decision making. Improve patient outcomes. New collaboration launched in Australia and New Zealand, but we can expect similar technologies around the world in the future. In what other ways can we address the shortage of skilled physicians in the healthcare…
By 2030, one in six people in the world will be aged 60 years or over—many of whom will be aging in place or living at their own home. Technologies like robots and AI (artificial intelligence) can help enable people to live safely in their homes longer than before. Let’s consider a few examples. Research out of Chiba University Graduate School of Nursing suggests robots and AI (artificial intelligence) are both critical to caregiving—especially as a shortage of skilled workers continues to rise up. Here is how this can help: Age in the comfort of their own homes. Minimize strain on resource-strapped industries. Keep a closer eye on health, allowing people to live longer lives. Still, there is one big hurdle standing in the way. Do people really want robots caring for them? The university study conducted a questionnaire for caregivers across Japan, Ireland, and Finland, looking at four different aspects of users’ willingness including: familiarity with robots, important points about robots, functions expected, and ethically acceptable uses. Those in Japan highlighted the importance of convenience; those in Ireland highlighted the importance notifying family members and support personnel when an unexpected change occurs; and those in Finland highlighted the importance of design. All in all, most were willing to participate in research and development and had a positive impression and interest in with the development of aging-in place type robots. View this story on…
The opportunities gen AI (artificial intelligence) brings to most industries are significant—dare we say remarkable? But let’s be clear, there are still some challenges. For example, most LLMs (large language models) are trained on publicly available data and the vast majority of enterprise data remains untapped, and much work needs to be done to address this. And again, dare we say address this sooner, rather than later? Enter Granite 3.0, IBM’s third-generation Granite flagship language models, which was announced earlier this week at IBM’s second annual TechXchange event. By combining a small Granite model with enterprise data, especially using the…
We have come a long way with safety. If you journey back to the year 1960 and walked a construction jobsite, you would see very different work conditions than you see today. Hard hats were not mandatory yet and PPE (personal protective equipment) wasn’t the common three-letter jobsite acronym that it is today. Workers would be hanging from the top of buildings, with little gear to protect them. We have certainly come a long way, right? Yes and no. The reality is every year, one in 100 construction workers still get hurt bad enough to need time off work. We…
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#Factoftheweek 280% Move aside robotics. AI (artificial intelligence) robotics are here. How are these robots different…
Emerging technologies, such as gen AI (artificial intelligence) can help us in many walks of life—including…
The worker shortage is something I have been covering here at Constructech for several years, okay…