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Like many, I am curious about the future of AI and design. You can see many examples, but what does it mean, and how can it work?

Dabbling in Dall-e.

Notwithstanding the reference to Salvador Dali, would the results be predictive or surreal?

After hearing about this app in a discussion of the future of healthcare design, I thought I would give it a try. The app is compelling, but limited.

Test Number 1 – A Hawaiian Beach

Test Number 2a – Fireplace of the Future

I asked Dall-e to give me an image of the fireplace of the future. The result looked more like the woodstove from the 1970s that we demolished when building our version of the future, 20 years ago. It’s as if a magazine advertisement from the 1960s was used as a data source

Test Run 2b -Fireplace of the Future

OK, let’s try again and use some different filters. Who picks these anyway? The results looked like a stripped down apartment. How does that compare with our 2022 project in Idaho?

Test Run Number 3a – Kitchen of the Future

This tests attempts to match up the AI from Dall-e with our kitchen redesign in California.

The first version looks like a dated galley kitchen with a giant window. The hood matches one we installed 20 years ago in a remodel. The glass sneeze guards on the right

Test Run Number 3b

Test Run 4: Operating Room of the Future

Comparing the Dall-e vision with world-class operating room design leaves AI with much to desire.

Results?

From all examples, AI does not provide the ingenuity, technology or creativity of the human mind. Not from a 19th Century painting, or from hospital architects, engineers and planners. Not even fo


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