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8.26.25 | Episode 934
Peggy digs into agentic AI (artificial intelligence) and its transformative potential for the construction industry. She explores how this next evolution of AI—capable of autonomous reasoning and decision-making—can address some of the industry’s most pressing challenges from labor shortages to supply-chain complexity.
She also discusses:
The staggering growth forecast of the agentic AI market.
Why small and midsized construction firms are still hesitant to adopt AI—and what the data says about this trend.
Use cases where agentic AI can make a difference, including project scheduling, supply chain coordination, and worksite safety.
What You Might Have Missed:
Peggy Smedley and Yury Gomez, global commercial head for supply chain manufacturing and mobility industries, Microsoft, talk about the acceleration of AI (artificial intelligence) and agentic AI. She says supply chains are getting drastically overwhelmed once again, with geopolitical conflicts, but the good news is Microsoft is changing how the supply chain is done with technology because technology is really changing the game.
They also discuss:
What a Frontier Firm is and how agentic AI can help Frontier Firms.
Examples of case studies where agentic AI is helping in the supply chain.
Three areas where companies need to intensify.
What You Might Have Missed:
Peggy Smedley and Maria Pacheco, assistant professor of computer science, University of Colorado Boulder, discuss the results of a study surrounding AI (artificial intelligence) solving sudoku puzzles. She says the more complex the problems, the more difficult the time the tools had at solving them.
They also discuss:
Why even the best tools had a hard time reasoning why they came to an answer.
The three stages to the language models acquiring the knowledge.
The main danger that exists and how we can use them for what they are good at.
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