Essentially people, all of us when we go to design something we often go out and do it and will make one or we’ll have three designs and…then we run out of time or money or patience and we say good enough. The computer doesn’t get bored in that same way. It doesn’t run out of time so you can literally test millions of versions and get a much better answer. So really what we are doing is automating the building of these prototypes. — MarketPlace
Until computers design themselves and design their own software human designers are still superior. In the end it's about making the right version, that single one that you fall in love with, not about making a million versions, what do we need a million version for? How is that going to happen if you have to critique a million versions? If those million versions will lead to that single one version, the absolute best version it could ever be, sure why not, but that's not going to happen because we humans are irrational beings and will prefer one thing today and another tomorrow. Can you imagine showing your client a millionversions, haha.
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Whatevs. Humans and computers together do even better than one without the other.
"Computers are superior to humans because I sell computer stuff."
And if computers are so great, why is the world still so ugly?
Computers will never create art
Until computers design themselves and design their own software human designers are still superior. In the end it's about making the right version, that single one that you fall in love with, not about making a million versions, what do we need a million version for? How is that going to happen if you have to critique a million versions? If those million versions will lead to that single one version, the absolute best version it could ever be, sure why not, but that's not going to happen because we humans are irrational beings and will prefer one thing today and another tomorrow. Can you imagine showing your client a millionversions, haha.
Y'all need to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
"Can you imagine showing your client a millionversions, haha."
It's one of my largest criticisms of the profession at the moment, based on my personal experience, so I hope it's not pervasive. Stop showing the client options unless you actually feel that there are more than one equally good solutions. They didn't hire you to write a fucking choose-your-own-adventure book, they hired you to design a building.
"Computers will never create art"
I would love to see the "Art" youre creating in this business, unless, of course you are a trust fund baby.
you tell em c bass!
If you are worried about a computer taking your job, then get a position instead of a job. Do it even if you don't fear the robots. Does that make sense?
if only the hatch patterns in autocad had been updated in the last 30 years, I would give a thought to something coming out of his mouth.
sod, I wish I had one. Fortunatly I'm not in "this business" ...but No, cant fathom a day where a computer could/would design something like zumthors bruder klaus chapel. Maybe in the distant future if they have true consciousness...
tinnt, no. There are many many people who will be unemployable. When was the last time you spoke with a real operator? That used to be someones job that they survived on. The machines have already taken many many lower level jobs espevially in manufacturing. There can only ve so many "positions." I would bet everything I own that in 100 years corporations will have automated 80% or more jobs....Profit and efficiency is what drives the corporation. We cant possibly compete with machines. They are the perfect employees. Not a single lawsuit or holiday either...
Once the machines take over who is going to have the money to buy what they produce? The owners of the machines?
Exactly. Inevitable collapse of society. Free society anyways.
Spoken like true transhumanist scum; I often think AutoCAD was one of the worst things to happen to architecture. See: 'Mirror' command, and 'Fillet'. These people believe the lights never go out.
JamesJoist, I'm intrigued, those commands?
"oops" is me favorite. It's a real command, try it after you delete something, do like 10 different commands, and bring it back without a bunch of Ctrl+z's
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