Architect Magazine: “That is the present; now, let’s look to the future,” declared Akhil Hemanth, a designer and AI guru at HKS. This statement elicited a collective laugh of surprise from the audience. Had we not been witnessing technology’s future, as we thought, but rather its current capabilities?
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Woah this is really interesting and the possibilities these platforms have to take off too is really exciting. I think that this is still going to require many iterations and changes before the program can produce drawings that just get built. But I also wonder what this means for engineers and drafts people who are now out of a job on an Ai platform that produces the desired content in minutes instead of days. How will this change our workforce? For someone who is looking to utilize all of these skills for employment to see that AI is now capable of producing basically the same thing it is concerning. But I also ask how we can utilize these tools to improve our world and lifestyles. Perhaps having AI produce the first pass then allowing the human touch to be added through the iterations. I really do not know how these tools will change our industries and how our world will start to look but ultimately it's happening so let's see.
Seeing the plans of a building or initial sketches of buildings always show organic and really interesting shapes that unfortunately do not or can not exist in reality. This incongruence of imagination and reality is often disappointing. The reality of trying to build a structure that is organic goes against the standard building practices and would need heavy retooling of a construction company to fit the building the building would need. Or the other conflict is that our current industrial practices are incompatible with what the current plan for construction of the building would need. The integration of AI into this process would absolutely need to be vetted but could it bring to life the science fiction writing of idyllic architecture and city planning? If it was possible, how many resources would be dedicated to this instead of basic needs that are already sorely lacking throughout our country… it is a sad balance to keep in mind.
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