Marty,

An AI ''mind'' may never be as complex as a human mind, but it probably has far greater accessibility to its ''thought'' than us to ours, given that so much of our own thought happens without any awareness of it happening on our part. Without an inner "thought-watcher" that's paying enough attention to harvest worthy thoughts, most go undetected. And then all that subconcious thought that silently informs our behavior. Ugh. Both kinds are as good as wasted, said the tree that fell in the unmanned forest.

Architecture seems fundamentally different than art, video, and music, in that it's more tied to various maths so it's no surprise that architecture software has become an invaluable tool for you (since "Math" is AI's middle name) while at the same time it's understandably making you worried that it might not end there. It would seem, though, to need a whole paradigm shift away from "software" per se, towards an all-in-one, interactive AI with the ability to do everything short of billing clients.

AI art is currently facing some lawsuits, and if artists find their jobs and clients disappearing, we may soon have a better idea how this might work out when AI invades architecture at a deeper level:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/16/...t-stable-diffusion-midjourney-deviantart

There's thousands of singers that I can create near perfect emulations of, right now, in OpenAI Jukebox, so it's easy for me to imagine one day a basic plot of land can be configured into Archecture AI that can emulate the creation of buildings in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudí, Norman Foster and others, with presets and sliders that let you get something in-between, say, two distinct styles, so as to come up with a totally unique style.
That kind of stuff might just be part and parcel of how the future architect works: coming up with dozens of designs overnight so as to give a client multiple choices--all dazzling. And I doubt very much that "Robo-architect" will ever be very good at schmoozing a client, either. So maybe there will be enough "big picture" stuff for the future architect to stay an architect.

We'll soon know about job displacements as artists will be the first to be impacted. If lawsuits are to happen they'll be happening soon. There will be a million discussions in chatrooms along the lines of "is an artist's style copyrightable?" I've followed the vids of some old school graphic artists and most seem to welcome the advent of AI while most are slow to actually use it themselves. These changes probably won't take place overnight.

What's interesting is there's been no backlash over OpenAI Jukebox. Maybe it's because the sound quality of the artists' samples, on the surface, is so poor that no artist is worried about their voices being appropriated in any meaningful way. Or maybe it's just that the samples can't be used commercially.

I love the fact that we have to think these things through. These are new problems brought on by new circumstances, so everyone seems a little tentative about where this is all heading.

Mike

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 02/22/23 01:32 AM.
Fate doesn't hang on a wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice

-The Divine Comedy (Neil Hannon)
from the song "Songs of Love"
from the album "Casanova" (1996)