Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already infiltrating our society and it has our smart buildings firmly in its sights; with the aim of accelerating the current wave of efficiency and insight flooding every corner of our built environment. The talk of AI might always sound like the distant future but the technology, in different forms, is already around us. “I’ve been hearing about AI for 30 years… but it was always a future promise. What’s different now?” asks Safra A. Catz, CEO, Oracle. “First, the underlying compute capability is so much faster, meaning systems can crunch through a deluge of data almost instantaneously. Two, the ability through software to manage and analyze that data is so much better,” he answers. AI refers to the simulation of human intelligence by machines. It enables machines to learn, test and adapt their approaches in order to emulate tasks that normally require human intuition – such as complex decision-making or […]