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Texas DOT to integrate AI into transportation system www.roadsbridges.com/technology/news/55250493/texas-dot-to-integrate-ai-into-transportation-systems

170 sats \ 7 comments \ @BlokchainB 11 Jan Construction_and_Engineering

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) wants to leverage the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to help make Texas roads safer and enhance mobility across the state.

TxDOT has released its Artificial Intelligence Strategic Plan marking a step toward enhancing processes, policies and the responsible management of Texas' transportation investments through AI, according to the agency. The plan identifies key use cases and provides recommendations to prepare TxDOT for adopting technological innovations.

The 230 potential AI-use cases identified in the plan will guide the department over the next three years. TxDOT engineers, IT experts, planners and multiple other employees across the state helped create these use cases.

Two hundred and thirty use cases??!?

This is crazy!!!

The plan also lays out multiple recommendations to help enhance data quality and train employees on AI.

Key focus areas of the AI Strategic Plan include:

Optimizing infrastructure: AI will help improve the efficiency and resiliency of the state's transportation network.

2.Data-driven decision making: AI-enabled analytics will enhance how staff can make decisions regarding roadway operations and maintenance.

3.Ensuring security: Incorporates security and data privacy safeguards to protect the agency, while also keeping humans in the loop with all AI processes

Not seeing how this boosts overall productivity. It feels disingenuous, the state is gaslighting the public with this 230 use case approach to using AI.

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74 sats \ 2 replies \ @Ge 11 Jan

lol of course we are throwing a.i into it lol a.i in your roombas,refrigerators,cars,phones,computers lol whoever sold them sold them good I see they want to make cameras better due to what they have is out dated but it does work from what i can tell lol this just adds to the bill I expect prices to rise with this and then it gets blamed on inflation

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB OP 11 Jan

Want a side of AI with your burger sir?

179 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 11 Jan

Regulate me harder please

69 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 11 Jan

I'd guess AI will improve productivity in quite a few areas, especially areas where DoT has unqualified, unproductive, unfireable people doing poor work for them.

"230 potential AI-use cases" sounds like the title of a sales presentation some lobbyist gave though.

17 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB OP 11 Jan

But how? What will the AI do that is more productive than a person when it comes to DOT projects? Better reporting? Better monitoring?

The article comes up short on how AI will bring productivity gains.

68 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 11 Jan

I was imagining AI augmenting humans while they are analyzing projects not replacing them. Nearly all of my experience using AI is doing autocomplete-like things with code and it dramatically enhances productivity at times, so that's what I imagine it can do nearly anywhere there's information work - extend, but not replace, existing productivity some.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 13 Jan

It makes me wonder if the current human-powered system is so f up that AI can come in n help out in 230 instances