**7. A review of emerging technologies and the importance of BIM integration with emerging technologies in the architectural academic program**

These emerging technologies and the importance of BIM integration with emerging technologies in architectural academic program will be reviewed as follow:

### **7.1 Artificial intelligence (AI)**

Artificial intelligence is the ability of a machine to learn in a similar way to a human being, to absorb new information and use it to develop its own intelligence system. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a multidisciplinary technology with a lot of branches, but machine learning is currently the most prevalent sector of artificial intelligence.

The term 'machine learning' refers to the ability of a machine to take in patterns in data and use them to think independently and produce their own solutions. The more data is entered into the machine, the better it can understand and provide insights. This is key in construction as much of the current processes are dependent on human capability. AI allows us to simplify these processes, reduce cost, risk and time and improve the efficiency and output of the project.

### *7.1.1 The importance of BIM integration with artificial intelligence (AI)*

BIM software can use machine learning to understand data, discover patterns, and from this, and make independent decisions about how to automate and develop the model-building process. BIM software gathers a lot of data, which (AI) operates to discover the possibilities of every aspect of a construction project and find the preferable solution faster than the human brain can. This speeds up operations and, in
