General use of AI methods

Question

I work as a civil engineer in my current position, but I try to apply AI techniques to improve our capabilities. I’m interested in how your teams use AI Techniques (pattern recognition, machine learning, Bayesian classification or neural networks) in real life. I am looking for ideas on other ways to improve our processes and fun projects.

Examples of things I've tried:

• Naive Bayes classifier for automatically assigning class labels (misconduct, criminal offense, violation of traffic rules) for a free text form entered by judicial journalists.

• Generated team schedule for a year using a genetic algorithm using a fitness function that assigns shortcomings for any planning conflicts, above / below the distribution of team members, holidays, personal leave.

• Binary associative memory for quickly querying environment configuration information for all applications deployed in all environments; including urls, ports, control source location, environment, server, os, etc.