Editor's Picks #549
Niall Patrick Walsh spoke with Neil Leach, author of Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects, as part of the ongoing Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series. Therein he provocatively suggests: "I think the model of the self-driving car is important for architects because just as a self-driving car doesn’t need a driver, so a fully capable AI AEC tool doesn’t need an architect…personally, I take the view that insurance premiums will encourage the phasing out of human architects, not protect them...The most important advice I have is that right now for architects is that they need to design not just another building but the very future of their profession itself…if architects do not move with the times in the age of AI, they risk the danger of becoming extinct." It doesn’t sound like Chad Miller is personally worried yet: "ANI is a tool, no different than modeling or drafting software. It' neither good or bad. Ultimately it's...
Niall Patrick Walsh spoke with Neil Leach, author of Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects, as part of the ongoing Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series.
Therein he provocatively suggests:
"I think the model of the self-driving car is important for architects because just as a self-driving car doesn’t need a driver, so a fully capable AI AEC tool doesn’t need an architect…personally, I take the view that insurance premiums will encourage the phasing out of human architects, not protect them...The most important advice I have is that right now for architects is that they need to design not just another building but the very future of their profession itself…if architects do not move with the times in the age of AI, they risk the danger of becoming extinct."
It doesn’t sound like Chad Miller is personally worried yet: "ANI is a tool, no different than modeling or drafting software. It' neither good or bad. Ultimately it's...
