Every week, more than 100 million people log on to ask OpenAI’s ChatGPT an estimated 1 billion questions, and in the same time frame its built-in companion text-to-image AI-powered app DALL-E 3 generates at least 14 million images based on user prompts. In just seconds, the former can write an article with the same title we’ve given this one (its actual usefulness, debatable) while the latter can render a skyscraper in the shape of a banana (its usefulness, also questionable).

But for all its meteoric trendiness, AI is no flash in the pan. It is poised to transform many aspects of industry in the coming years, including architecture and construction. And AEC sector players, big and small, are looking to it as the next frontier for developing practical applications that can solve real world design problems. So when it comes to architectural use cases in general, as well as those specific to wood construction, what are AI’s emerging opportunities for AEC professionals? And how can they be fully realized in the years and decades to come?

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