Bridges and Biases: How LLMs Are Learning to Inspect Infrastructure
TL;DR for operators Bridge teams do not usually lack data. They lack enough expert time to turn dense inspection data into clear, defensible decisions. That is the operational gap this paper tries to narrow: not by replacing bridge engineers with a chatbot in a hard hat, thankfully, but by using multimodal LLMs to translate non-destructive evaluation contour maps into structured condition assessments and maintenance recommendations.1 ...