What kind of stuff does it miss?
What kind of stuff does it miss?
It's also complicated because it's hard to model buildings correctly. My sister likes to tell a story about a total loss she had for a standard masonry building with sprinklers. From her point of view, this is the perfect type of building. They're hard to catch on fire, and if there is a fire, the building puts it out. At worse, your damage is limited to the one room or section where the fire was, since the internal masonry walls keep it from spreading. This building burnt down because the solar panels on the roof caught fire, which spread across all the panel over the entire roof. The sprinklers never got a chance to go off because the roof collapsed. It's certainly possible to model this one case, but the problem is there are a million one off cases like this, and we don't know about them until there's a loss. Right now, human intuition from the underwriters and inspectors is what they use to cover try to cover the gap.
> This building burnt down because the solar panels on the roof caught fire, which spread across all the panel over the entire roof. The sprinklers never got a chance to go off because the roof collapsed.
Type 3 construction that burned to the ground? It doesn't take a human to realize or intuit that even type 1 buildings burn eventually (ask a firefighter!). If there is a way to truly model every possible variable when insuring a building, I will put money on humans doing a worse job than expert AI systems. You're asking the AI to not only predict but _know_ the future, and not asking that of the human... seems silly.