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Heber Allred zzTakeoffMinor Update: Various Bug Fixes, Ask AI Feature
We fixed a few bugs:
- "Pica" error - some users uploading using Ad Blockers or Tracker blockers were causing errors uploading image
- Folder ID fix in reports
- Improvements to PlanSwift import
- Misc other bug fixes
Ask AI
This is experimental for now, but you can highlight a portion of the page with the selection box, and in the popup you can "Ask AI" questions about the highlighted portion of the image.
This is just a random example of highlighting the #2 detail and asking AI to explain it. I'm sure you will have much more useful use cases than this, but just to illustrate how it works:
Then you get the response in a popup.
This is very early days, and will get a lot more advanced with time (integrated with scripting, etc.).
So cool where this is headed! However, Its got the entire document set in here and needs to beable to look up other sheets and do a better job at searching thru the documents for the main answers. Tho copilot could not find it either...granted that's running on chat GPT 4.1 and it was not text serchable file.
Oh the answer is ductile iron pipe. DI
There are a couple AI companies out there that specialize in construction context LLM's have you reached out to them yet? Plug their tool in this puppy and lets go!
Heber, Thank you so much for you and your team working so hard on our behalf!! Fantastic additions with each update!!
Thanks guys!
@Kyle We'll get there 🙂 Google Gemini has some things built in...but we're just trying to manage our AI bill costs vs feeding in the whole set of plans. What are the best LLMs you've seen for construction? We'll offer as much as we can as part of the base package, and then if users use a ton of AI, may require users to buy extra AI Credits or something.
@Bryan Thank you! We're excited to be back, and grateful for all the support and feedback from you guys. 🚀
I will be very interested in seeing how this feature progresses, as I spent many months last year feeding a couple LLMs screenshots of confusing section details and poorly coordinated floor plans, only to get inaccurate, and at times, nonsensical responses that were typically a waste of my time. And I would even send the LLMs a set of screenshots consisting of the floor plan, elevation sheet, & section detail, and they still couldn't figure it out. But the concept sure looks super cool.