The life and death story behind construction’s would-be AI revolutionary

By Daniel Gayne2023-06-27T06:00:00

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ALICE technologies boss René Morkos talks about his background in engineering, living in war-torn Lebanon and post-invasion Afghanistan and his AI ambitions

“If anybody ever points a gun at you, the thing you want to do is put your hands up and smile profusely,” says René Morkos, putting his hands up and smiling profusely. Thus begins one of the livelier anecdotes I have heard in my time writing about construction.

Though we talk for little more than an hour, Morkos takes us across continents, with each successive step of his life rendered in vivid three dimensions, despite the flat, deadening environment of Zoom-space.

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