AI

Maybe I'm an AI and this is just one of the trillions of simulations I think I'm living in. If that's the case, what I'm about to say will have the runners chuckling. The algorithm could be showing me more, but I've seen a lot of posts by people experimenting with AI architecture - only in the past week or so. AI has turned a corner with the Banana in terms of ease of use. The images are beautiful, interesting and challenging. I see the AI doing something that I've seen students doing forever. What I did as a student too. We look at lots of architecture and form our own position.

I'm sure that's part of it for me personally. However, there are ideas, forms, scenarios that were with me before education - even as a child. Stuff I still do. Possibly the runners of the simulation could have pre-programed me to see how I got on. Or I'm not an AI and AI is not us.

Either way I have no inclination to use AI for the generation of ideas. I have far too many of those in my own head. It's the bit I love doing the most - why would I ask someone (or something) else to do it for me.

Where AI is incredibly exciting for me is as a helper. Not as an ideas generator, but a way to visualise my own ideas. Below are some images. The sketch was done a few years ago. I recently modelled it in cad and 3d printed it. The concrete image is by AI. All I gave it was one photo of the printed model from above and this was the first image it gave me. It can now, from a single photo, give you any view accurately as photorealistically as you want - incredible? ​