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Architecture bodies responding to “real risks” of AI

August 15, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Architecture bodies including RIBA and AIA are putting together guidance and policy requests to governments to help the profession deal with the potential risks and benefits of AI. Artificial-intelligence (AI) technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, with the emergence of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney raising serious questions for the creative

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Orbital Materials combines ChatGPT with physics to invent “transformational materials”

August 14, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

The first materials designed by AI could be less than 18 months away, according to Orbital Materials CEO Jonathan Godwin, who aims to harness the technology to create materials to help with carbon capture. Formerly an engineer at Google’s AI research laboratory DeepMind, Godwin founded Orbital Materials in 2022 with a vision to bring to market

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Ten AI companies that architects and designers need to know

August 3, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Dozens of AI tools are emerging that could dramatically alter how architects and designers work. As part of our AItopia series, Dezeen rounds up 10 of the most significant. Architects and designers are used to working with new technologies, but the rapid progress of artificial intelligence promises to usher in a wave of products that

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Dezeen in Depth asks if AI will really take architects’ jobs?

July 29, 2023 Rupert Bickersteth 0

This month’s Dezeen In Depth newsletter looks at whether architects could lose their jobs to artificial intelligence and features an interview with Bjarke Ingels. Subscribe to Dezeen in Depth now. As part of our AItopia series exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact architecture and design, Dezeen examined whether the technology could end up taking architects’ jobs. As part of the piece,

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Will architects really lose their jobs to AI?

July 27, 2023 Nat Barker 0

As part of our AItopia series exploring how AI will impact architecture and design, Dezeen examines whether the technology will end up taking architects’ jobs. In 2019, New York-based designer Sebastian Errazuriz caused a stir with his claim that 90 per cent of architects could lose their jobs to machines. Four years on, following the

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Tim Fu uses “Midjourney for architecture” to transform crumpled paper into starchitect buildings

June 29, 2023 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designer Tim Fu has used LookX, an artificial intelligence tool trained on architecture, to turn squashed paper into building models that evoke designs by architects Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid. The LookX platform, which just launched, is an artificial intelligence-generated content (AIGC) tool that was designed especially for “architecture lovers”. It is trained on an

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“AI tools are rapidly changing how we imagine the urban environment”

June 26, 2023 Fabio Duarte and Washington Fajardo 0

Using AI to help design cities of the future risks creating a regressive world like The Jetsons unless we recognise the technology’s susceptibility to stigma and bias, write MIT scientist Fábio Duarte and Washington Fajardo. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly changing how we investigate and imagine the world and the urban environment. They can

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This week we launched our AItopia series

June 24, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, we began our AItopia series, which will explore the impact of artificial intelligence on design, architecture and humanity. Along with an introduction to the series, which explained why we are focusing on artificial intelligence (AI), we created a guide to the key terms being used to discuss AI. In an opinion piece as

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You are now entering the AItopia

June 19, 2023 Nat Barker 0

Launching today, AItopia will explore AI’s impact on design, architecture and humanity both today and in the future. Dezeen features editor Nat Barker introduces the series. The future has arrived. Having been depicted countless times in sci-fi literature and cinema over the decades, machines that can think for themselves are becoming a reality. Artificial intelligence

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GAF applies solar-reflective coating to mitigate Los Angeles heat islands

June 8, 2023 Ben Dreith 0

American roofing firm GAF has completed the first phase of a public-private initiative that seeks to mitigate urban heat in Los Angeles through solar-reflective coating. The GAF Cool Community Project completed the first phase of their public project in Los Angeles’ Pacoima, covering asphalt roads and public areas in a 10-block radius to see if

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