AI in AEC

Plain-English definitions for the AI words you keep hearing at work, written for people who design buildings rather than software. 108 terms, each with an example of how it comes up.

The short version of what's happening in AI

What the scaling argument actually claims, which parts of it are measured, which parts are extrapolation, and what has landed two years on.

Translation, not generation

The near-term AI story in architecture isn't designing buildings, it's the collapse of the translation tax that surrounds the design.