AI for Bridge
AI for Bridge

Author: Rakesh Kumar

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2024-04-09

Total Pages: 0

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Bridges stand as iconic symbols of human ingenuity, connecting communities, facilitating commerce, and enabling travel over challenging terrains. As vital components of transportation infrastructure, bridges play a crucial role in modern society's mobility and economic development. However, the design, construction, and maintenance of bridges pose significant engineering challenges, demanding innovative solutions to ensure their safety, durability, and sustainability. In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into bridge construction and management has revolutionized traditional practices, offering new avenues for enhancing efficiency, safety, and sustainability. By harnessing the power of AI, engineers and researchers can leverage advanced algorithms, data analytics, and automation techniques to address complex bridge-related tasks with unprecedented precision and effectiveness. The book "AI for Bridge" delves into the intersection of artificial intelligence and bridge engineering, offering insights into how AI-driven approaches are reshaping the landscape of bridge design, construction, inspection, and maintenance. Through a comprehensive exploration of AI applications in bridge engineering, this book aims to provide a holistic understanding of the potential benefits, challenges, and future directions of integrating AI technologies into bridge-related processes. From leveraging AI for optimizing bridge design and construction planning to employing drones and IoT sensors for real-time structural health monitoring, each chapter of this book delves into a specific aspect of AI's role in bridge engineering. Through case studies, practical examples, and Python code demonstrations, readers will gain hands-on experience in applying AI techniques to address real-world challenges in bridge construction and management. As we embark on this journey through the realms of AI and bridge engineering, we invite readers to explore the innovative possibilities, transformative impacts, and ethical considerations that accompany the integration of AI technologies into the realm of bridge infrastructure. Whether you're a seasoned bridge engineer, a researcher, a student, or an AI enthusiast, "AI for Bridge" offers a comprehensive guide to navigating the intersection of artificial intelligence and one of humanity's most enduring engineering marvels.

The Bridge of Artificial Intelligence
The Bridge of Artificial Intelligence

Author: Shalom Bright

Publisher: Eliva Press

Published: 2023-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789999312035

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In our rapidly changing world, climate change disputes are escalating at an alarming rate, presenting complex challenges that demand innovative solutions. Traditional dispute resolution methods have struggled to keep up with the scientific intricacies, diverse interests, and political complexities inherent in climate change disputes. This book examines the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize dispute resolution in this critical arena. By leveraging AI's capabilities, we can pave the way for more effective and sustainable resolutions to one of the most pressing global challenges of our time. However, AI's involvement in creative fields brings its own set of profound questions. AI-generated artworks lack have ignited a pivotal debate surrounding human authorship in copyright law. Whether AI can produce 'original' works The Sara Silverman Lawsuit Against OpenAI further underlines the inconsistencies within this decision. This book delves into the intricate intersection of AI and intellectual property law, with a particular focus on AI's inability to secure copyright protection for works featuring "original" characters. As AI technology advances, it blurs the lines between human and machine-generated creative content. The current copyright framework predominantly recognizes human authors as the sole creators of original works, raising fundamental questions about the legal status and personhood of AI-generated characters and their creators. Drawing from legal precedents, ethical considerations, and AI's evolving capabilities, this book explores the challenges posed by AI-generated content to copyright law. It advocates for a re-evaluation of copyright principles to adapt to the changing landscape of creative expression in the digital age. Moreover, it addresses the wider implications of AI's inability to hold copyrights, including the potential impact on AI innovation and the need for alternative mechanisms to protect AI-generated works and their creators fairly and ethically. Readers are offered a comprehensive perspective on the transformative potential of AI in both climate change dispute resolution and copyright law.

The AI Conundrum
The AI Conundrum

Author: Caleb Briggs

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2024-08-06

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0262378973

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A timely, practical guide to AI—its strengths, weaknesses, and real-world applications—for business professionals and policymakers. Artificial intelligence, or AI, can recognize a pattern from any set of data it is given, which is what makes it such an extraordinarily powerful tool. But because not all patterns are authentic or reliable, AI’s pattern-finding superpower can lead to spurious patterns—and to disastrous results for business and government entities that rely on them. Hence the conundrum at the heart of AI: its greatest strength can also be its greatest weakness. Targeting the businessperson who needs to know how to use AI profitably and responsibly, Caleb Briggs and Rex Briggs offer in this book a foundational understanding of AI that is easy to grasp yet thorough enough to be used effectively. The AI Conundrum: • Draws on the authors’ diverse expertise—in pure math, computer science, marketing, data science, and business—to make AI concepts and applications approachable for readers of all tech levels. • Provides a framework for comparing AI to the next best alternative, and for gauging where AI is likely be successful—or to pose greater risk than benefits. • Includes dozens of real-world case studies highlighting the successes and failures of AI applications across various industries. • Offers actionable insights for responsible implementation and risk mitigation. • Provides a worksheet for identifying potential problem areas, a cost-benefit analysis, and a companion website. The AI Conundrum is an invaluable resource for professionals and students seeking a full understanding of AI—its applications, limitations, and ethical considerations—as we enter a brave new era.

Rebooting AI
Rebooting AI

Author: Gary Marcus

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 052556604X

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Two leaders in the field offer a compelling analysis of the current state of the art and reveal the steps we must take to achieve a robust artificial intelligence that can make our lives better. “Finally, a book that tells us what AI is, what AI is not, and what AI could become if only we are ambitious and creative enough.” —Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion and author of Deep Thinking Despite the hype surrounding AI, creating an intelligence that rivals or exceeds human levels is far more complicated than we have been led to believe. Professors Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have spent their careers at the forefront of AI research and have witnessed some of the greatest milestones in the field, but they argue that a computer beating a human in Jeopardy! does not signal that we are on the doorstep of fully autonomous cars or superintelligent machines. The achievements in the field thus far have occurred in closed systems with fixed sets of rules, and these approaches are too narrow to achieve genuine intelligence. The real world, in contrast, is wildly complex and open-ended. How can we bridge this gap? What will the consequences be when we do? Taking inspiration from the human mind, Marcus and Davis explain what we need to advance AI to the next level, and suggest that if we are wise along the way, we won't need to worry about a future of machine overlords. If we focus on endowing machines with common sense and deep understanding, rather than simply focusing on statistical analysis and gatherine ever larger collections of data, we will be able to create an AI we can trust—in our homes, our cars, and our doctors' offices. Rebooting AI provides a lucid, clear-eyed assessment of the current science and offers an inspiring vision of how a new generation of AI can make our lives better.

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations
Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations

Author: Hiroshi Yokota

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-04-20

Total Pages: 8732

ISBN-13: 100017381X

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Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations contains lectures and papers presented at the Tenth International Conference on Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management (IABMAS 2020), held in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, April 11–15, 2021. This volume consists of a book of extended abstracts and a USB card containing the full papers of 571 contributions presented at IABMAS 2020, including the T.Y. Lin Lecture, 9 Keynote Lectures, and 561 technical papers from 40 countries. The contributions presented at IABMAS 2020 deal with the state of the art as well as emerging concepts and innovative applications related to the main aspects of maintenance, safety, management, life-cycle sustainability and technological innovations of bridges. Major topics include: advanced bridge design, construction and maintenance approaches, safety, reliability and risk evaluation, life-cycle management, life-cycle sustainability, standardization, analytical models, bridge management systems, service life prediction, maintenance and management strategies, structural health monitoring, non-destructive testing and field testing, safety, resilience, robustness and redundancy, durability enhancement, repair and rehabilitation, fatigue and corrosion, extreme loads, and application of information and computer technology and artificial intelligence for bridges, among others. This volume provides both an up-to-date overview of the field of bridge engineering and significant contributions to the process of making more rational decisions on maintenance, safety, management, life-cycle sustainability and technological innovations of bridges for the purpose of enhancing the welfare of society. The Editors hope that these Proceedings will serve as a valuable reference to all concerned with bridge structure and infrastructure systems, including engineers, researchers, academics and students from all areas of bridge engineering.

Human-Centered AI
Human-Centered AI

Author: Ben Shneiderman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0192845292

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The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design and testing. As many technology companies and thought leaders have argued, the goal is not to replace people, but to empower them by making design choices that give humans control over technology. In Human-Centered AI, Professor Ben Shneiderman offers an optimistic realist's guide to how artificial intelligence can be used to augment and enhance humans' lives. This project bridges the gap between ethical considerations and practical realities to offer a road map for successful, reliable systems. Digital cameras, communications services, and navigation apps are just the beginning. Shneiderman shows how future applications will support health and wellness, improve education, accelerate business, and connect people in reliable, safe, and trustworthy ways that respect human values, rights, justice, and dignity.

Artificial Intelligence and TheFuture of Power
Artificial Intelligence and TheFuture of Power

Author: Rajiv Malhotra

Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited

Published: 2021-01-10

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9789390356430

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A recurrent debate surrounding AI concerns the extent of human work that could be replaced by machines over the next twenty years when compared to new jobs created by AI. Numerous reports have addressed this issue, reaching a wide range of conclusions. Experts consider it a reasonable consensus that eventually a significant portion of blue- and white-collar jobs in most industries will become obsolete, or at least transformed, to such an extent that workers will need re-education to remain viable. This percentage of vulnerable jobs will continue to increase over time. The obsolescence will be far worse in developing countries where the standard of education is lower.