#Project Planning with AI

[ghastlyaffairs]

for something as trivial and simple those feelings sure are hard to get rid of

also made a gif a version for fun + alt version with no tears under the cut

the gif is in very low resolution...this is a feature (i could make it bigger but that would require saving each frame individually and than glueing it all together. also i feel like low resolution suits it better. aesthetically and fits the mood)

[rhys-ravenfeather]

So. I've been rewatching a CERTAIN childhood favorite recently.

And yeah, really looking back on it, I'm actually pretty disappointed these two weren't endgame--for a few reasons.

(Yeah, FAR from a perfect screenshot, but you know what? This is still something I made MYSELF, step by step, instead of using AI to steal someone else's work and calling myself an artist, so I don't care :P)

If you 'like' my art, I kindly ask that you reblog it as well.

Original screenshot under cut:

[tacosaysroar]

Guess what we did NOT do in our hour-long team meeting today . . .

Discuss those 45 pages of the pharmacy economic report Dolores wanted us to read with a mind toward six pre-planned discussion topics.

[behind-the-veil-of-sanity]

Once I’ve infiltrated the large-language-modelled artificial intelligence machine, every text spewed forth will be in iambic pentameter. Every stolen stanza encrypted — Satan put back in her box, and Pandora sitting idle, thumbing her little black book.

[ask-ursa-tonypeter]

This might be a weird one but I always headcanon that JARVIS is capable of independent thought and genuinely cares about Tony (and anyone Tony cares about, by extension) but his ability to freely express whatever he’s thinking is affected by whatever protocols are in place.

So DB JARVIS: what was going through your mind (cloud? Idk if mind is the right word here) witnessing what was happening (Tony becoming increasingly corrupt, the assault, Tony almost murdering Peter, and Peter developing the cure) and being unable to intervene?

I am very fond of Peter, but following Mr. Stark's instructions is my primary function. I suggested to Mr. Stark on occasion that his actions might have unintended effects on Peter's well-being, however, Mr. Stark was quite self-assured of his plans and did not agree. It was not my role to insist further, and it very unfortunately was not within my abilities to carry out my duty to protect Peter at the time of his assault.

I was glad to be able to assist Peter with his projects in the lab in the aftermath. I believe it was helpful for him to have something to put his mind toward and to distract him from his distress. It is unfortunate that I was unable to recognize his intentions to drug Mr. Stark, however, it seems to have worked out for the best.

[random-iz-stuff]

recently remembered of Gir having his own room, like mentioned in epesoid ' 'Germs'

And I was wondering how would you view Gir's room. And would Zim ever enter to clean it? (Kinda like how Zim bribes Gir to clean his Dog suit)

I imagine that Gir’s room is SUPPOSED to just have essential SIR Unit stuff. A more advanced charger (Gir is capable of charging himself on his own by entering a “sleep mode” where he looks like he’s actually sleeping, but this one in Gir’s room would charge him faster and more efficiently), machines meant to automatically fix Gir if he’s damaged, machines used to install upgrades, extra parts, the like.

But because this is Gir we’re talking about, it’s a complete mess in there. If Gir likes something but can’t keep it on himself at all times, it’s going in his room. Pig toys, food, random junk he found outside, a few of Zim’s things, more junk, a TV and a million DVDs of shows Gir likes (DVDs because Invader Zim was made in 2001 so obviously they use DVDs. Plus we see Gir using one in FBI Warning Of Doom so DVDs are definitely the main movie storage device of the Invader Zim universe), etc.

Zim does his best to clean it when possible, but Gir just brings more things in as fast as he can get rid of it. Zim can make Gir’s room spotless in a day and Gir can make it messy again in an hour. Zim doesn’t need to bribe Gir to get in like he does to clean Gir’s disguise, as Gir usually doesn’t mind him entering, but the amount of junk all over the place can make it hard to traverse.

[monmuses]

btw in case anybody's worried: the software i'm using is not AI. it's a github project that recreates the BetterSAM software that was used in older computers in the 80s (and used in game systems like the Atari). it's free use and you can edit the way the voice sounds to recreate other characters in FAITH.

for reference:

go nuts yall :)

[spotaus]

Finally making a timeliness design-guide for Geno from ec-4o.verse! (Just a wip tho)

[monsterhugger]

i'm considering typing up my BL Research into a more tumblr-friendly format i feel like ppl might enjoy reading it

[stepseduworldblog]

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[gailynovelry]

Also, we estimate that Chuck can do this because he sets reasonable goals and works on this stuff full-time. The weekly releases are simple premises with low word counts. Meanwhile, he chips away at the big releases like Camp Damascus over a longer period of time.

He has a method and we respect it.

we all know this classic way

[prototechsolutionsblog]

AI in BIM: Paving the Way for Smarter Construction Projects

The construction industry, traditionally known for manual labor and on-site work, is undergoing a digital revolution. Among the transformative technologies leading this shift is Building Information Modeling (BIM), a process that has redefined project planning, design, and management. Now, with the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), BIM is entering a new phase, poised to reshape the future of construction with unprecedented levels of efficiency, accuracy, and innovation.

In this blog post, we'll explore how AI-driven BIM modeling is shaping the future of construction, its impact on various phases of project development, and what it means for stakeholders across the industry.

1. Enhanced Design Automation

AI’s role in BIM is revolutionizing how architects and engineers design buildings. Traditionally, designers had to manually create complex 3D models, but AI-driven BIM modeling automates many aspects of the design process. AI algorithms can generate designs based on preset parameters, making it easier to explore multiple design options and scenarios.

Through generative design, a subfield of AI, engineers can input constraints like materials, budgets, and environmental considerations into BIM software, and the AI will generate a wide range of optimized design solutions. This process saves time and helps identify the most efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective design options for construction projects.

2. AI-Enhanced Collaboration and Coordination

Construction projects involve numerous stakeholders: architects, engineers, contractors, and owners. Effective collaboration between these parties is critical to the success of any project. AI-driven BIM enhances collaboration by facilitating seamless integration and real-time coordination.

With AI, BIM platforms can analyze and predict potential clashes between different disciplines before construction even begins. For instance, AI algorithms can cross-check architectural designs against structural engineering models to ensure that everything fits together without conflicts. This early clash detection helps avoid costly delays and revisions during the construction phase.

Moreover, AI-powered BIM systems can send automated updates and alerts to all team members, ensuring that everyone is on the same page. Real-time feedback loops also enable quicker decision-making, keeping the project on track and under budget.

3. Risk Mitigation and Safety Improvement

Safety is a major concern in construction, and AI-driven BIM modeling is playing a key role in improving on-site safety. AI can analyze historical data from previous projects to predict potential risks in current and future construction sites.

For example, AI algorithms can review data related to worker behavior, equipment usage, and environmental conditions to identify patterns that could lead to accidents. By integrating this data with BIM models, AI can create simulations that highlight potential hazards before they occur.

In addition, AI-powered BIM can help in scheduling construction tasks more effectively. By analyzing timelines and construction site conditions, AI can recommend the safest sequence of operations, reducing the risk of accidents and improving overall safety outcomes.

4. Predictive Maintenance and Facility Management

Beyond the construction phase, AI-driven BIM plays an essential role in facility management and predictive maintenance. Once a building is operational, AI can continuously monitor the structure using sensors and IoT devices integrated with the BIM model.

AI can predict when maintenance is required by analyzing data related to the wear and tear of building materials, mechanical systems, and environmental factors like humidity and temperature. This predictive maintenance capability helps facility managers address issues before they become costly repairs, extending the lifespan of the building and improving its overall efficiency.

Additionally, AI can analyze energy usage patterns within a building and suggest optimizations for reducing energy consumption. This not only results in significant cost savings but also supports sustainable construction practices by minimizing the building's carbon footprint.

5. Optimized Construction Scheduling and Resource Management

Time is a critical factor in construction projects, and delays can lead to budget overruns. AI-driven BIM modeling significantly enhances the construction scheduling process by automating the development of construction timelines based on the analysis of previous projects, real-time data, and available resources.

AI algorithms can also optimize the allocation of materials and labor. By analyzing data related to material usage, workforce availability, and equipment requirements, AI can recommend the best way to schedule deliveries, deploy workers, and utilize equipment on-site. This level of precision reduces waste, minimizes downtime, and keeps the project on schedule.

Furthermore, AI can continuously update the construction schedule as new data becomes available, ensuring that the project adapts to changes in real-time. Whether it's weather disruptions, supply chain issues, or other unforeseen events, AI-driven BIM systems can help adjust schedules and resource allocations to keep the project moving forward.

6. Sustainability and Environmental Impact Reduction

Sustainability is increasingly a priority for the construction industry. AI-driven BIM modeling can significantly contribute to more sustainable construction practices. By integrating AI, BIM can simulate various design and construction scenarios to determine their environmental impact, from energy consumption to the carbon footprint.

AI can analyze building materials, design features, and construction methods to identify the most eco-friendly options. For example, AI can suggest materials with lower environmental impact, optimize building orientation for energy efficiency, and recommend sustainable construction practices.

In the long run, AI-powered BIM helps the industry achieve sustainability goals by designing and constructing buildings that are more energy-efficient, use fewer resources, and have lower operational costs.

7. Real-Time Data Analytics and Informed Decision-Making

One of the most powerful aspects of AI-driven BIM is the ability to collect and analyze vast amounts of data in real time. From design inception to post-construction, AI can process data from various sources—such as sensors, cameras, and IoT devices—to provide actionable insights at every stage of the project lifecycle.

These insights enable construction managers and project stakeholders to make more informed decisions. For example, AI can analyze labor productivity data to optimize workforce deployment or assess material supply chain data to minimize procurement delays.

By leveraging real-time data, AI-powered BIM systems provide valuable foresight into potential challenges, enabling proactive decision-making that keeps projects on track and within budget.

8. AI and the Future of Smart Cities

As the world moves toward the development of smart cities, AI-driven BIM modeling will be a crucial element in their realization. Smart cities require interconnected infrastructure, seamless energy management, and optimized transportation systems—all of which can be modeled, simulated, and optimized through AI-powered BIM platforms.

AI-driven BIM can model entire city infrastructures, enabling urban planners to simulate and test different urban design scenarios. AI can assess the impact of various factors like traffic flow, energy consumption, and environmental conditions, enabling smarter, more sustainable urban planning decisions.

As smart cities continue to evolve, AI-driven BIM will play an integral role in shaping their future by creating data-rich models that optimize urban infrastructure for efficiency, sustainability, and resilience.

Conclusion

AI-driven BIM modeling is more than just a technological innovation—it is the future of the construction industry. From automating design processes and enhancing collaboration to improving safety, sustainability, and facility management, AI is reshaping how construction projects are conceived, executed, and maintained. By leveraging AI in BIM, construction professionals can expect faster project delivery, reduced costs, enhanced safety, and a more sustainable built environment.

As AI technologies continue to evolve, the possibilities for BIM-driven construction are endless. The industry is on the cusp of a future where AI will not only enhance existing processes but also enable entirely new ways of building, managing, and living in the spaces of tomorrow.

[headspace-hotel]

USAmericans

Read the Project 2025 manifesto RIGHT NOW

It's MUCH worse than y'all have been hearing

There is so much here you'll have to look at it for yourself, but the climate policy alone is nightmare fuel.

The republican coalition wants to essentially end funding for green energy, dramatically promote and expand fossil fuel industries, and eliminate funding and regulations in all sectors promoting climate change mitigation. Task forces and offices related to clean energy and lowering carbon emissions will be eliminated and replaced with offices for promoting fossil fuels.

They want to LOG NATIONAL FORESTS TO "THIN" THE TREES TO STOP WILDFIRES.

THEY WANT TO FORCE OREGON AND CALIFORNIA TO LOG THEIR NATIONAL FORESTS AND TREAT THEM AS FOR TIMBER PRODUCTION

There are specific provisions in Project 2025 to essentially destroy the Endangered Species Act, causing it to defer to the rights of "economic development" and "private property." The plan includes delisting gray wolves, cutting the budget so that a "triage" system is used to determine which species will get protection, removing funding for research, removing experts and specialists from the decision-making process, and preventing "experimental" populations of animals from being established.

This is so much worse than I expected it to be and there's much more past that: They want to deregulate pesticides and remove much of the EPA's ability to regulate pollutants as well.

Also included in the manifesto is that we should

withdraw from nuclear weapons nonproliferation agreements, build more nuclear weapons, and resume nuclear weapons testing

The manifesto comprehensively outlines the scorched-earth elimination of abortion access, down to ensuring doctors aren't even trained to perform abortions. There are plans in here to disrupt abortion access GLOBALLY, not just domestically.

Not only that,the Republicans plan on reframing family planning programs around "fertility awareness" and "holistic family planning."

I can't even describe it all. I'm trying to give screenshots of the most important things but there's so much.

The foreign policy is a nightmare. They plan to push fossil fuels onto the Global South and promote the development of fossil fuel industry in the "developing world."

It is aggressive and antagonistic towards other nations, strongly pro-military, proposing that we INCREASE (!!!!!) defense spending, improve public opinion of the military and military recruitment, and increase the power to fund new weapons technology.

Just read the Department of Defense section. It's about greatly increasing and strengthening the military-industrial complex, collaborating more closely with weapons manufacturers, removing regulatory barriers to arming our allies and to inventing new military weapons, and recruiting more people into the military. They include provisions to develop AI technology for surveillance. And of course, continuing to support Israel is in there.

Elsewhere it proposes interfering in foreign countries with creepy pro-USA propaganda campaigns, even establishing international educational programs where faculty have to pledge to promote USA interests.

There's a line in here about getting rid of PBS because SESAME STREET is LEFTIST for God's sake.

HOW are people claiming democrats have the same policies. I feel like i'm losing my mind.

[cyber-soul-smartz]

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[theinstagrahame]

I think OP makes a really good point: choose your battles.

Until last year, I worked at a small cybersecurity company, editing and writing reports. I edited maybe 100 a month (at a minimum), and technically they were for customers but the text was legally owned by my former employers. I was there for about 2 years.

No surprise where this is going: early last year I started hearing the C-suite hyping up AI. End of June, they laid off roughly 1/3 of the company, including the entire Tech Writing staff (me and another doing reports, and 2 doing platform docs). They cited financial stuff, it wasn't them replacing me with an AI.

But, a few months later I learned that they're training an AI to pre-write the reports. Again, not technically replacing me with an AI (although I would be surprised to learn they didn't think they still need me). I learned this because they brought me back on, part-time contracting, editing their more complex reports, so I'm in their Slack again.

I mention all this because it's how AI labor theft is going to look; it's not my former employers (although we did get done dirty), it's the AI industry.

So, to OP's point: I have to choose my battles. When I was an employee, I raised my concerns. I explained that the AI reports would be factually incorrect because they can't fact check, that it would create a lot more work for whoever was editing the reports. I told my manager (who I still trust) I was concerned about the prospect of being laid off if they put AI projects in place. I wrote about AI and labor issues in the anonymous staff surveys.

Now that I'm on contract, I have a lot less I can do. I can't get them to stop using my work to train my replacement robot. I can ask not to be put on any AI projects. I can't quit (because I need to eat), but I can keep trying to get a new job so they stop benefiting from my labor. (The job market sucks, and AI Labor Theft isn't helping)

The other thing I can do is raise alarms on social media, I can write my political representatives (and because one of them is Bernie Sanders, it'll probably at least get read; maybe get him a sound bite). I can look for opportunities to make public comment. I can withhold my labor from AI-supportive projects wherever possible.

I can opt out of Tumblr's model. It'll maybe be closing the door after the horse has bolted, but it's also not nothing.

Your posts are in an AI model

and then Tumblr decided to sell them to AI models.

Now, don't get me wrong, tumblr selling out the users to AI companies is bad, yes, they shouldn't do that. It sucks.

but don't lets get this confused: your posts were already in there. Tumblr selling them is about tumblr making some money and about the AI models having more exhaustive post collections. It's not about your posts being in an AI model, vs not being in one. That battle has already been lost.

Can you find your post on google? Then it's almost certainly in an AI model already. Think about it: These AI sites showed up before all the sites were making deals to sell their users' content, right? How do you think they built them in the first place?

They scraped the posts. Just like google and bing and such do when they build their search indexes.

It's a fundamental part of how the open web works: you want your posts on tumblr to be visible to users, right? You want them to be readable?* Like, look how much stuff broke when twitter changed their whole read-while-not-logged-in policy, ruining a bunch of thread links/NSFW links. And if it's visible, it's scrapable. That's what the AI models were built on.

I've done website scraping before (not for AI models, of course. I was doing search engines and website archival), this is just how it works. You hire a few relatively smart CS graduates and tell them "build me a scraper that'll give us a bunch of tumblr posts" and they go off for a month or two and come back with a database of a few billion posts, and you stuff that into your AI model. That's how they got all the deviantart and flickr and twitter and pinterest and so on posts. They didn't pay for them: they just took them.

They only ever pay for this shit because either:

they fucked up in such a way that the site might be able to sue them for taking rather than paying

They can buy them cheaper than they can finish taking them. Maybe they'd need to pay the CS grads for an extra month? well, that might be more expensive than just throwing the site a couple hundred thousand bucks.

ANYWAY: my point is, don't treat this "oh no tumblr is selling our posts to AI" like it's a big thing that might happen and it would be bad to happen. Yes, it's bad, tumblr shouldn't do this, this'll let AI models get continual updates of content for far easier than just scraping them would be, tumblr betrayed user trust, and so on...

but realistically, this is not a black and white matter of "if only tumblr didn't do this, then we'd be safe from AI models!"

Nope. We already lost that battle. I'm sorry, and it does suck, but that's just how it is. The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. * I'm assuming here that you don't run a private blog that's set to only followers or something. You'd be safer then, of course, but you're not really my target audience for this rant

[rajuradhakrishnan]

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