We are already immersed in the internet of things – IoT, even if it doesn't seem like it or we don't perceive it with the naked eye. The information is handled daily with Big Data systems to extract data and conclusions that 10 years ago was unthinkable to synthesize them and now, the future is on its way towards artificial intelligence or AI …
Are you ready? Do you think that a "machine" will never be able to replace? Well, be careful, because the Architecture sector is changing by leaps and bounds.
Just as CAD drafting yields detailed drawings and made our manual skills almost irrelevant gaining a lot of time in drafting the project.
Artificial intelligence systems in architecture can do the same with experience current, for example, in cost estimates, in the design or in the preparation of the necessary documentation for the construction, works or rehabilitation and, furthermore, without rest. For example…
The above video represents: one we mix AI + BIM + Parametric design. A project that we can adapt to hundreds of heights automatically. Many can be done! things! So let's begin to understand how we will affect…
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Here, we would like to show the evolution in the artificial intelligence and what are its trends of graphically testing the unstoppable rise:
This combination of factors is expected to generate a cycle virtuous and exponential growth in the next decade. By sectors and countries we can test:
Recognizing that we are in the information age and its analysis, it is nothing new, but trends such as the Big Data with concepts as interesting as the Predictive Analytics whose explanation we details 1and1 here, or new perspectives that go much further away from analytics and that combine virtual intelligence and artificial . Now it's time to understand a little more about AI and how it will affect us.
According to experts there are two futures for professions and both will rely on technology.
Sorry!… But we have to admit that the first option, in the long run, will disappear. Professions traditional; be an architect, engineer, builder, mason… Although we are excited about the first future (More powerful design software that calculates structures more complex, to give an example) the reality will be different.
Why will we have a different future?…We will have homework in instead of jobs. We think that professional work is a set of individual efforts, but in practice, what we carry out are different activities or tasks in our jobs, and, here, enter with great force the artificial intelligence technology .
An example of artificial intelligence in action…
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artificial technology does not displace entire jobs, but it changes the "tasks" people do at your job. For example, a CAD software does not replaces architects, but rather changes the tasks that perform. At this point, it is wrong to think that "being creative" represents a guaranteed job, of course certain daily tasks will require creativity, but not everyone require, as confirmed by the video on intelligence intuitive artificial .
So the architecture sector and its professionals they will have to adapt to the challenges of the call « Second Age of Machines «, when the Machines not only do things that we program, but they can do the tasks we do.
The perfect example of a project with artificial intelligence in architecture we bought it from Autodesk called Dreamcatcher. What would happen if through a CAD system we could generate thousands of options for a design that met some specific objectives?
An example of AI that is based on a design system and regenerative architecture that allows the architect creating a solution to a design problem through of some limitations and objectives that we indicate. This software plays a participative and active role in the invention of form.
For example, we add functionality requirements, structures, manufacturing methods, types of materials, receipt of costs…etc. And the CAD program not only takes care to show us the best option (for example, the cheapest) but which also describes possible viable alternatives.
The learning capacity of the AI is huge, we can learn a little more on this Youtube channel, and also, if we use applications immersed in mobile phones where information is stored by users. here the technology is capable of collecting and analyzing habits in order to satisfy specific needs by users.
The architecture industry has been using intelligence-based parametric design artificial for years, creating models that you can adapt to multiple dimensions such as the following parking…
Firms such as Zaha Hadid Architects and MAD Architects have become more than famous worldwide for its ability to control software logic that can create thousands of of variations of a design based on the inputs of a building facing sun exposure, views, or movement of pedestrians.
Example of a project created with intelligence artificial by the office of Zaha Hadid Architects at the Math: The Winton Gallery, first public permanent exhibition in a museum by the famous studio.
We all agree that collaboration between machines intelligent and human will increase the abilities of the workers but... Won't it mean job losses? job?. If we start looking at some serious reports about the theme, how the Capgemini document, gives us some data of interest about what advantages intelligence brings artificial to their organizations:
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More customer satisfaction, more sales, more benefits, supposes an economic growth for the companies which is correlated with an increase in the workforce, which is so, but there is actually a little short-term trick that can be a disadvantage for many users.
As we can see in the following graph, the majority of the positions that are being created right now, it is between managers and managers.
The answer to the graph is simple, you need highly qualified and trained professionals to be able to work together with the IA. And of course, the tall positions of all companies are the first interested in training if they want to survive in that competitive world.
Obviously not everything is a benefit, we also note disadvantages of virtual intelligence o risks in our work environment:
So, as we move into a future artificial technological and connected permanently to the Internet, we should ask ourselves if it could there may be new ways of organizing professional work, new ways to share and produce practical knowledge in the society, new ways of solving important problems that, traditionally, only professionals have solved.
The challenge for every architect will be to recognize this change of work activity and anticipate new tasks developing the necessary skills that will be required.
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