This made me wonder about those home design businesses that got big and then had to lay people off - like Modsy. I’m sure there are multiple people working on AI home design apps right now (design meaning curated links to Amazon and West Elm). How will that impact the design industry?
Great question. This doesn’t answer your Q, but in writing this, I was thinking about the difference between a rendering compared to AI generated images. Rendering softwares use AI, but the point of them is to imagine a space designed by a human for a human. Alternatively, they could be used to design a space that can’t exist, like an eco utopia.
I think for me, my biggest problem is that AI images don’t use human creativity — they are a pixel in, pixel out kind of thing, which makes their depiction even further from reality than an impossible space thought up by a human, like MC Escher.
To get back to your question, I think in the nearish future, there will be a return to the “real” and a pull away from computer generated art. Eventually, I think, these companies that thought AI would solve all their problems will realize that computers aren’t equipped to design a space for a human.
This made me wonder about those home design businesses that got big and then had to lay people off - like Modsy. I’m sure there are multiple people working on AI home design apps right now (design meaning curated links to Amazon and West Elm). How will that impact the design industry?
Great question. This doesn’t answer your Q, but in writing this, I was thinking about the difference between a rendering compared to AI generated images. Rendering softwares use AI, but the point of them is to imagine a space designed by a human for a human. Alternatively, they could be used to design a space that can’t exist, like an eco utopia.
I think for me, my biggest problem is that AI images don’t use human creativity — they are a pixel in, pixel out kind of thing, which makes their depiction even further from reality than an impossible space thought up by a human, like MC Escher.
To get back to your question, I think in the nearish future, there will be a return to the “real” and a pull away from computer generated art. Eventually, I think, these companies that thought AI would solve all their problems will realize that computers aren’t equipped to design a space for a human.