If we shoot for the moon and get into orbit we have done well enough.. Secondly, there will be direct antagonism in the value sought by each delivery organisation, the parties will not be aligned in value drivers.. Open discussions and agreements need to be had about what value means firstly for the intent of the endeavour e.g.

These decisions have real-life implications.. ‘We better be sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose we really desire,’ Norbert Weiner stated in 1960..In 2021, Stewart Russell OBE (Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley) in his Reith Lectures expressed some principles that he had co-developed to make the development of AI positive and safe.. Altruism – AI is there solely to improve human outcomes and purpose.

Uncertainty – the objectives, purpose and outcomes will remain uncertain.Learning from humans – there needs to be a dynamic process, constantly checking back and developing understanding.. Why is this important?Russell asks you to imagine that you have a robot looking after your children.

You give it the clear purpose of keeping the children safe and fed with home cooked food.All sounds great.

The robot goes to the cupboard and fridge and sees that there is no food in the house.

Then it notices the family dog…..It sets about harmonising, digitising and rationalising demand by aggregating the next five years’ pipeline data from the major government departments (health, education, justice,.

and housing) to identify areas of commonality and difference..When these documents were published, I commented that they would both be enablers of an ‘Amazon for construction’.

Using ‘Amazon’ was meant as shorthand for some form of digital marketplace.to advance construction procurement methods.