Watch for AI to Find Its Way Into Smart City Upgrades
As cities update timeless technology like streetlights, they are laying the groundwork for smart city connectivity and data gathering. Artificial intelligence will help sift through the mounds of data these projects create.
Source: GovTech, by Skip Descant
It should come as no surprise that artificial intelligence is making its way into the smart city space as the mechanism for sifting the massive amounts of data that urban tech requires and generates.
Generative AI can test, explain, generate, audit and translate code, said Alison Brooks, research vice president for Worldwide Public Safety at International Data Corporation (IDC), a consulting company for the IT, telecommunications and consumer technology markets.
In her comments at the Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo last week in National Harbor, Md., Brooks pointed to generative AI’s ability to create compelling summaries of dense data. “Think about [city] council notes and complaint records, and policing, and the generation of outreach to citizens. All of those things are fairly low risk and are fairly high value.”
The technology, Brooks said, “is going to…