Author: Connected World

The use of AI (artificial intelligence) technologies is transforming industries from manufacturing to healthcare, retail, agriculture, transportation, and beyond. Precedence Research estimates the global market for AI will reach nearly $1.6 trillion by 2030, up from about $87 billion in 2021. A new AI and machine learning-powered project funded by the NSF (National Science Foundation) will leverage these powerful technologies to transform the way scientists analyze ocean imagery, adding yet one more way AI is changing the way humans interact with everything—from other humans to machines and even data from the depths of the sea. Every day, new information from…

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Episode 791 10.4.22 Rich Humphrey, vice president of construction product management, Bentley Systems, joins Peggy to discuss some of the biggest challenges facing the construction and infrastructure spaces today. They talk about how technology can help better manage data, leading to lower costs and more-efficient project management overall. Below is an excerpt from the interview. To listen to the conversation from The Peggy Smedley Show, click here or go to https://peggysmedleyshow.com/ to access the entire show. Peggy Smedley: Rich, I love having a guest like you on the show who has just a wealth of experience in the construction and…

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Humans, not technologies are the missing link for manufacturing and supply-chain success. For the manufacturing and supply chain sectors, the recent past has been formative—and pre-COVID, this “formative recent past” would have referred to the disruptive shift toward Industry 4.0 technologies, including the IoT (Internet of Things). However, considering the pandemic, the formative recent past must now include all the strife supply chains have faced because of the fallout from COVID-19. Technology is a part of the picture, but it’s far from the whole picture. Supply chain executives have long pursued more visibility within and control over supply chains. What…

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