I Challenged AI in a Design Battle…With Unexpected Results.
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The "AI vs. Architecture" video features a creative showdown where AI and architects face off to design projects based on imaginative, often absurd prompts. It highlights the strengths and limitations of both approaches, with AI generating designs rapidly using tools like ChatGPT, MidJourney, Runway Gen, Visoid, and D5, while human architects bring nuance, cultural depth, and context to their creations. The video explores each AI's workflow, contrasting it with the human process, and uses a playful yet thought-provoking narrative to illustrate the differences between machine-generated efficiency and human imagination. Ultimately, it questions what truly makes great architecture meaningful.
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What I really like about these videos is the way they start out with architecture (interesting in itself) and then broaden out into much more general social questions. Always thought provoking… thanks again and keep up the good work!
Netflix needs to grab Dami and team for a series
I’d watch that
It’s funny how certain content creators can make subjects you aren’t even interested in interesting and entertaining and engaging. I don’t care about architecture. I like Dami.
While I *am* interested in architecture I must confess the first thing that drew me to this channel is the cute way Dami moves her mouth when speaking. Her right and left sides are... asymmetrical? for want of a better word.
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@@ZimaCyberia Yeah, calling out virtue signalling is also virtue signalling.
Nothing wrong with appreciating beauty in all things. That said, this channel definitely helped see architecture in a more meaningful light.
I loved the waterfalls and the water reflections in the 'Human' design. I've experienced some stunning architecture here in Japan with features like these. I wonder what actually living with such beautiful features would be like. Would I grow accustomed to them and stop noticing, or would they continue to fill me with awe and joy? On the subject of AI, it's wonderful, and so useful. I use it every day for work and fun. And thank you, Dami, for yet another interesting and thought-provoking video!
I haven't even finished this yet, but can I just say this is one of the most creative and high quality channels on this platform 🙌🏻 I'm always excited to see a post!!
That's an understatement! The production quality of this channel is off the charts!
Hell yeah!! When I see a new post. I say to myself, today is going to be a good day.
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The Ai design was very nice but like something we’ve seen before. Your design looked completely original!
I would definitely like to see an AI challenge that focuses less on the renderings and concept, but instead focuses more on the layout and design details. As a potential home owner, I'm not going to be buying a rendering, but a home. Voting on images without the rest of the information is like picking a color pallet without any context regarding what it will be used for, it might look pretty or even make me feel a certain way, but it doesn't have any practical use until the rest of the context is added.
Yeah there is no meaning behind the content it creates, it's all just a facade.
For your purposes, it wouldn't be all that useful. You want a guided design that factors in cost and efficiency and usability, something AI has no thought of. Like when you see those AI designed rocket engines, they aren't actually better. They merely try to use the least amount of material while keeping a similar or greater structural strength, but may not actually achieve the same structure strength, and don't actually understand the concept of how things like temperature and pressure could affect those materials. And they don't even actually factor in performance either, or things like repairability, longevity, manufacturing issues, etc.
All AI can do for you is give you something neat to look at, that an architect could then take and turn into reality, and decide what's possible or not, or up to code or not. That can still be very useful, as usable creativity can take a long time. AI can mash things together in a way you might have never thought of. AI can generate floor plans, but the best process would probably be to create floor plans into a simple 3D model with walls and rooms, and then have the AI to render it with possibilities on everything from wall color to baseboards to where windows could be and what type, etc.
Of course you could have AI create a render, give it to an architect, and tell them to make it as close to that as possible, and for most cases that would probably be good enough as long as you had enough coherent detailed renders, it wouldn't be too difficult to figure out from there.
The fact that the renders didn't even match the plans the Ai created...they were just pretty images and videos of buildings completely unrelated to what was being put forward by the Ai says everything. The fact the discord didn't notice this makes me question lots as well! For reference I examine home plans every day in my job, even with human designers there's some terrible mess ups so it does go both ways lol.
@@QuinchGaming You can create images that match the floor plan perfectly, they just didn't use the AI properly and didn't realize there are common tools to do that with. So it's not an AI deficiency, it's a lack of skill problem. They really went into this like a person who has just used AI for the first time.
@@QuinchGaming Discord wasn't given any context either. It was a simple A B choice between two images or two text blocks. I'm actually confused about where the data for the category ratings they show in the video came from.
Do Architects consider the burdens of Maintainance of the design? Accessibility, cost, life time etc!
A design could be impressive to experience when everything, the ecosystem surrounding it, is “static” or perfect. But materials age, corrode, break, and therefore needs to be repaired or maintained. That’s when the real cost of a design shows itself.
Impressive videos as always.
Guess this separates the okay architect from a really good one.
Well, isn't that the work of the engineers at that point?
@@DrakeyStarly When it becomes the work of the engineers everyone gets sour towards each other. Engineers are frustrated by unrealistic, expensive, or over budget ideas while the architect gets frustrated by a bunch of ideas getting shut down. Architects should really take estimating classes and value that stuff. Good ones do. Because when they don't, the whole team just gets in a bad mood
@captainreza1 I totally agree about considering the burdens of maintenance. Underwater/underground living spaces mean something different to anyone who's ever had a leaky or damp basement.
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Awesome video as always. I liked the second concept personally. The "S-bend" over the water and into the forest with the living quarter nestled into the shoreline was an super interesting concept with a lot of untapped potential. You didnt show the thought process behind that design, but I have some ideas that may flesh that concept out a bit more. I think reversing the hook and making the Island a commonroom with a hearth it makes better use of the vista of the lake while creating a closer knit social space. By placing an open concept kitchen between the two dinning areas I think you may you may still achieve the desired connection to the food. The aroma of cooking would flow through the whole building, calling people to dinner before meal times, building anticipation and drawing in people to observe the creation process. The open concept kitchen would also allow guests to interact with the people curating the meals, increasing the intimacy of the experience. The back wall of the kitchen space could be half wall/half windows to cloister the area and give you a wet wall for a hand washing station and a counter with dumb waiters (the tops of the dumb waiters would sit flush to the counter until needed when it would raise up out of the counter, the section of counter top on the dumb waiter would rest on top of it instead of being attach so when it was lowered the counter space would not be lost and prevent objects being knocked down an open hole and facilitate removal for easy cleaning) to remove dirty dishes or bring up supplies unobtrusively from a lower level that had exterior access. The lower level could be accessed along the same back wall via a spiral stair that is compact, but comfortably wide enough to allow two people pass with empty arms (1.5 m wide?) without pushing past each other. Along with the ground access for supplies the lower level of the kitchen would have the dish washing area, refridgeration, dry storge and washroom facilities for staff. It may somewhat ground the appearance of the floating architecture concept, but having it near the apex of the hook in front of the treeline would allow you to obscure it with greenery. Blending it in nicely with its surroundings.
Just some thoughts. The design was amazing as shown. Keep up the fantastic work.
Also AI is a useful tool, but is definitely a double edged sword with the potential to be as ruinous as a nuclear device.
of course its the best one... they went with the worst.. thats what people with egos do. they dont want to hurt anyones feelings. should of incorporated the water features into the curved design. they were thinking two dimensionally... instead of three.
I don't understand that blowout vote, which is why I do not believe in focus groups nor judging like this. That MidJourney forest minimalist glass structure I have prompted myself on many occasions. The human proposal had experiential flow, attention to detail on sight lines, plus it had that "out of the box" ideation that humans do so well. I even find ChatGPT to sound a bit "see spot run." There's little that is poetic or savory within. I use about 5 AI platforms AS TOOLS, and they work great as such.... so I agree with your final conclusion. Humans still have to drive the creative; we are blessed with ego, doubt, uncertainty, emotion and ambition. Also, evil AI Dami is... ya know... great episode!
Dami, can you please release merch with the iconic pic of you pointing at something that you usually use in the thumbnails? Love you and your channel, you're the best channel in TH-cam.
Good idea!! 😆
Excited to be part of the battle!💪
Now this... This Is pure entertainment.
It's so refreshing, I love it!
Then again, I found interesting how the AI designs were... Something like I saw before, somewhere. It was beautiful, but non-imaginative.
But... *"The Path"* really took my mind away. Is it true that AI can do amazing things, but it's far for being perfect. It still requires... More. It needs more soul, more passion, being more "human" if it does makes any sense.
For me, humans actually won this.
Why? Because I don't give a crap about the renders, but the ultimate result, the "pure" creation and it's process.
From heart, I believe both we can work together. _"Help me, help you"_
...Oh, and I love the theme of this video. The "Man vs. Machine" really got me engaged. Kudos to Dami and her team for such an amazing video!
I for one would like to remind our new AI overlords that as a prominent public figure, Dami can be useful in rounding up all of the other humans to work in their lithium mines.
Great video Dami! We are happy to be on the human side, helping architects to render quickly :D
Way to perfectly display the distinction between human and artificial intelligence in design 😊 very cute and funny too😂
Even with a modulated voice, the presenters cadence and tonality is easily detectable...
In addition to Architects, you should also invite an Engineer to assess the structural viability.
Structural engineers make it possible!
I literally just cracked a joke from a structural engineering prospective. 🤣🤣
tbh the design made by humans was like way more original than whatever the ai came up with. yeah the ai stuff looked pretty and such but it was kinda boring.
5:25 that "cazzo" was from the deepest part of the soul 🤣
TIL some essential Italian
Ooo!! You guys should do a challenge where you create an architectural design that hilights the aging of the building/materials over time. Like each part of the house/property is a different stage in its timeline....but still beautiful.
Ex: Like the front entry way is new, but as you go down the hallway, the wooden floors and walls are more worn, which leads you to the living room that's 10 years old...and the kitchen is 20 years old.....
But highlighting the beauty of the aging materials, and how they refract light differently (for windows) or feels different with age.
Idk if any of that made sense. But I just thought it'd be a cool thought experiment!
Love how informative and well put together your videos are. You and your team work well together!
Makes my day when a full featured @DamiLee YT video pops up in my feed, absolutely love the context and cinematography. As a native NorCal guy that’s very familiar with the area, I’d love to see the Orinda project.
Personally, the waterfalls and path and half submerged dining rooms were a bit "much" for me. The more basic 'lodge' is closer to my idea of a retreat. In my opinion, the humans went a bridge too far and designed something more suitable for a memorial or a museum.
On the other hand, _doors are awesome.
Love your channel anyway, Dami. You rock.
As a sci-fi fan, I used to wonder what it would be like to have a literal world of information and analysis available by merely summoning it, and here we are, in its rapidly developing nascence. And the creative aspect of AI is fabulous as well, and is already creating wonders. 'Actual' AI scares the hell out of me, because a self-recognizing program programmed by humans is a frightening thought--and I still hope I live long enough to see that. But I'm really enjoying the current progression...
Ask the AI to make a parts list, find contractors and make a budget for these projects.
I mean, ideas, layouts and renderings are a dime a dozen.
Thank you for another great video. I work daily with different AI tools in both business and creative. You hit on a key issue. If you have a concept that isn't, well, a mainstream thing, then they don't have any examples the model has learned from to draw upon.
Really good point on how the tools shape design btw! I have the exact same feelings about Revit - while it's a great program, I still think it's best to start your design in a more freeflowing environment like Sketchup/Rhino/a piece of paper so your ideas can take whatever direction they choose, and _then_ move over to Revit for renders. Because if you start out in Revit, while the process might be more streamlined, like you mentioned you'll subsconsciously start designing _for_ Revit with boxier forms just to make your life easier.
That's how I feel with revit too. It's too restrained if you just started out for concept. It should probably be use for construction and coordination on big projects once the overall concept has been determined.
i think if you do a round three maybe you can approach where you pass it off to a firm and have them decide which one they would sign up to build. because looking at your renders alone i get a sense for space and scale and how things are connected, where as the ai images feel like your building a lakeside condominium and these are looks at the different models in the catalogue. i mean one image is a floating house, one is on stilts, all the rooms are at water level yet it’s also 2 stories. it has all the consistency of me trying to draw anything anatomical
this was not quite fair because AI renders and videos are results of lerning from artists and they nkow how to make liting an texture good , while your renders are based on existing 3d models with less focus on it looking like art. I guess the best would be to compere just projects drown by pencils on drafts and same style drowing for AI. this will be a fair comparison of architect skills: desine, shape, creativity.
Exactly, the public was not reacting on the design, but on the image. Completely different things. I feel the ai stuff was generic.
i would have voted for the 'Loop' design. it looked awesome.
Same
I am an aerospace engineer. I think my work is interesting and fun. But I think it would be impossible to create a video to communicate that as well as Dami does for architecture. She’s genius.
Love this! You should make it a running series. Honestly I think you guys kicked AI circuits with that retreat
One of the best videos you've ever made, so incredible and so thought provoking!
Never forget the human touch
The thing that worries me about AI is that people will start to rely on it to much on it, and by extension feeding it more AI generated content, leading to the AI eventually only being able to learn from whatever it itself is outputting, which will render it useless and is, as a product creatively inept. So in other words it’s not AI that worries me but it’s the human drive toward finding shortcuts.
It’s great at resampling training data. It doesn’t think through anything, it’s the ultimate illusionist. Can be useful to pre-visualize “ideas” clients make up as they go. In that use case, it could save a lot of frustration, as long as you don’t get paid for iterating the old fashioned way.
This video was excellent in its concept and execution. The tale your are telling although quite sad in its outcome, says something profound about an era where technology has come to blend with the very idea of sci fi. I realize you are working with quite the team, but the synergy here is palpable so hat's off to you all.
So much production went into this video, man. Props to you!
The AI design looked like the generic slop you see all over google search results now, the human design was 1000x more interesting
Super inspirational and quite intelligent on how you have kept AI in the 'Clevertools' category and not in the 'Overlords' just yet... Seriously I do enjoy that ability for architects and I hope engineers and quantity surveyors to be able to bring projects together on budget and avoid the many pitfalls that happen in building projects through the judicious use of these tools which can communicate among each other seamlessly without 'Ego'. From a country that will soon open the world's most expensive hospital per bed -- Yeah that's embarrassing -- here';s hoping this works out.
I really enjoyed this video. But if I may. With option three, I immediately thought of the Death Star trench followed by the Viet Nam Memorial. The lower level quarters did not feel warm and inviting at all. Option one - not more cantilever, please. Fallingwater anyone? I liked option two because it had an organic feel, somewhere between forest and food, lol. The AI floating solution nailed the fundamentals of the design request beautifully. You guys do such a great job, so informative and fun.
Yeah i loved the concept conceptualized by the AI but that's the point. The rapid iterations and easier collaboration where everyone is on the same page gets you 80% plus to a product that's better than without AI ever could be. But a person still needs to go thru to add doors, remove extra fingers, and make sure the project is actually viable.
Even though AI images were much better in terms of colours etc, I can see that human design was special.
AI have the tendancy to generalize designs and ideas while humans can be creative and combine different elements.
Also, there are details and constrains which are obvious to humans like, asking yourself always "how to build this."
Meanwhile AI can give you plans without doors or literally floating roofs.
Well, the problem is always the industry. The constant battle to seek optimization will eventually force many designers to get kicked out. Because, corporations can pay one guy with 5-6 AI tools instead of 6-7 designers/artists/architects/engineers. The money, costs, and the ease of control over an individual within the competing small market is more appealing.
That is the scary part. And isn't mentioned enough I believe.
Hello, I’m a software developer, and I think AI (in my case) is amazing in how it can help solve simple problems or predict what I’m about to code just by writing a single line. However, sometimes it struggles to properly solve mathematical equations (such as algorithm speeds in worst-case, average-case, and best-case scenarios), and I believe AI occasionally lacks coherence with real-life scenarios.
Imo, AI is better suited for the more mundane works like sorting, tracking info or maybe generate code based on prompt. As at the end of the day, AI are still codes and algorithm so it can't think too logical and realistically.
AI lacks coherence with real-life scenarios, just like me.
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I love the nature documentary segment, I really wish there was an AI David Attenborough cameo to narrate it😂
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Damilee, the walkway with water poring over the sides was awesome. Progressing through the walls of water on both sides provides an experience of leaving one's frenetic life to emerge into a relaxing vacation, the imagery of parting of the Red Sea motif. Brilliant! Also, the sunken dining room in the lake was excellent.
TLDR.
It should be easy to outdo an AI. I do it every day. AI lacks the human touch, soul, and desire. It can only work with humans to create what they want. If you ask it to do something vague, it can only produce what is statistically the best concept based on its data and programming. But it does not understand what a good or bad experience feels like.
To illustrate this point, imagine you have an AI-driven car. It possesses all road, weather, and traffic knowledge. It can take you anywhere in the world more efficiently and safely than you can drive yourself. Now, we will park the car in the driveway. What will it do? Will it drive away? No, it will sit there forever because it does not "desire" to go anywhere. If we programmed it to drive all the time, it would leave and never return.
If you instruct an AI car to create a generic trip, it will fail every time. It doesn't know what you like and cannot experience pleasure or displeasure. It will create a trip based on statistical analyses of what most people have done. It does this based on its data, not on the subjective human experience and feelings. However, if you guide an AI car to create the perfect trip, it can do that better than a human can. But it's important to remember that AI can only help us get what we want because humans can desire pleasure and avoid discomfort.
AI-based architecture will analyze modern building structures and designs to ensure they comply with modern economics, regulations, and lifestyles. It will design the most common square structures of concrete, steel, glass, cosmetics, etc. Therefore, the AI's impressions of what people want in a retreat are predictably based on averages. But we, as humans, bring the element of surprise, the unexpected, the unique, to the table.
An AI does not know what it feels like to have a retreat experience. To exchange the feeling of the frustrating modern life surrounded by sharp-edged square concrete, steel, and glass boxes for something organic, novel, or subjectively pleasurable. Like a geodesic dome tent looking over the Swedish Alps, a hut on a Caribbean beach, a wood A-frame cabin surrounded by a dense forest, a hobbit home in a hill, a teepee in an aspen grove, or a star viewing deck atop a round tower, a modern cave, or a treehouse!
But Damilee, you know what that feels like. You could have chosen a retreat 'experience' and outshone those soulless AI bots. But you went all in with the vague nouveau architectural style, the AI's sweet spot; of course, they excelled in that area.
The AI offers the illusion of opulent serenity, using an open scenic landscape, wood veneer, large open windows, and simplistic causal furnishings to mask its rigid, antiseptic, industrial architecture. What is left if you remove the wide-open landscape and wood veneer, have no wall-sized windows, and remove the Bohemian furniture? A box? A box with large communal rooms with bored people hanging out? The AI resort is the very thing people are trying to get away from.
Is architecture simply aesthetics, or is it an experience? If it is aesthetics, the AI will always win; if it is an experience, AIs are clueless.
Crazy AI looming! 😅
At first, I was a bit hesitant about your video during the opening minutes, but knowing the quality of work you and your team consistently deliver, I kept watching. I’m glad I did, because you absolutely nailed it with this one. The stunning visuals, paired with a compelling and relatable narrative, made the video truly inspiring.
I still think your human proposal was much better, the other looked like a mashup of cliches... I get the point that the mashup of cliches might be what most humans like 😅
In any case, your thoughts on the whole experiment where the most interesting part of the video.
The "problem" with AIs aren't AIs themselves, it's who owns and deploys them and who reaps the profits of all the improved efficiencies. As the situation stands today the massive AI models are very centralized and even smaller startups often rely on calls to the "big boys". I feel this is an elephant in the room of this video. It's not an impersonal robot or a mysterious intelligence from beyond who "absorbed every thought" (11:03). It's a narrow class of ingenious, wealthy people who have strong financial and power incentives to use the AI powers you show in this video to manipulate, disempower and exploit all of us. The perception of AI is very different when AI is framed as a subject of its action as in your video compared to when we frame it as a tool in hands of human subjects whose motivations are grounded in the struggles of our shared reality.
Interesting video, resonates a lot with a recent New Yorker article on how writers are using AI tools as an idea generator, and that it is, like tools such as word processors before it, shaping the way writing is done. But, in the end, a good end product still takes a deep level of human thought and sweat to burst forth
With Stable Diffusion you can always try using Control Net for a lot more precise control, something like segmentation would help a lot since you can specify through pre-established colors which part of the drawing is wall and which is window or water .. each object or material has a specific color used by all segmentation AI models (even before SD was a thing, you can find these color coded lists of objects/materials online easily).
Control Net can utilize this segmentation color coding to control the outputs, you just have to input into Control Net a version of your initial image/sketch that has each part painted with the right color (an image of a unrendered 3D model will work too as long as the segmentation colors are accurate), hope that helps.
i really like this challenge series. might also adapting on doing it but in photography and making it a long form content video. this is really inspiring for us creators.
I've studied Architectural design and graphic design, worked as an art teacher and design, and from the youngest age been doing some form of drawing, painting, or designing for as long as I can remember. I am say all of this to say when AI came out as an Art Generator I was very excited about what it can do. As someone who designs houses for fun now I see AI not in a threatening Way but In a baby stage of what it can do. Now most AI is learning to do digital Art and photography and cartoons. But Imagine if they were properly trained on real world realestate and real world designs.
Just as architects went from pencil and paper with slide rules to Grasshopper, CAD, and the various other programs as their tools, a dedicate d professionally designed AI could speedup the rough design phase then using modeling data to test the structures against local building codes and standards, weather, and geological events. We could see a new era of Architectural master pieces and safer more efficient homes and buildings. People complaining about AI are lacking in innovative imagination.
One more proof that Architects need an Engineer to ground them and make sense of the ideas. The path was unhinged. You should include an Engineer for the eventual part 3
This video should be in Netflix
You guys did an AMAZINGGGG job!! I LOVE the entire design of the areas incorporated with the water! ❤❤❤
Just started watching, but loving the new glasses already!
"We've taken care of everything, the words you read, the songs you sing, the pictures that give pleasure to your eye." - Temples of Syrnx, Rush.
Another fantastic video! ...
I love tech, design and arcfhitecture ... and scifi ;) ... no wonder I love your work guys :)
I really enjoyed this! It's great to see a playful and non-simplistic take on AI.
To be honest, I really don’t care for what the AI did. Hyper-realistic renders are good and all, but I like the human touch in presentation. Where there’s a focus on concepts that matter. But even with that in mind, your concepts were waaaay above what the AI could achieve. Non-generic and genuinely inspiring, and at the end of the day, that’s what Architecture is about. Creating spaces, not images.
You don't have to choose one or the other. You can have both. If you give a skilled designer these AI tools to help them rapidly iterate across their designs and generate high quality presentations of them, you get the best of both worlds.
AI can do the 80% of grunt work creating detailed renders and cinematic videos while the human designer touches up and fixes the design elements. AI is a tool not a competitor. Those who learn to use these tools will come out on top.
ideas like submerged spaces seem really interesting, but, I wonder who cleans that glass of all the algae buildup? How much maintenance time goes into that? If the location climate has wide seasonal temperature variations, then how does thermal expansion and contraction effect the barrier seals between the water on the outside and the dry, submerged areas?
I think about about back-end concerns like this when I see really cool design concepts. I think about walkway flow movement from one space to another, and how many different ways any one location can be arrived at from another. Where's all the plumbing go, and all the other dirty stuff, like environmental insulation, and environmental control, as well as efficiencies involved in the energy footprint?
How locked into a singular design will the end product be, and how flexible/adaptable would it be to remodeling/renovation in part or whole as the tastes of the owner and/or potential future markets change?
I think I would make one of the worst clients because I would be constantly picking at things and asking questions like these.
As an SD guy, I can tell you the first problem you guys walked into was not training with your own LORA. You didn't build off of something like ComfyUI which gives you much more granular control of layers to make sure certain aspects of the design are retained, and other replaced.
Gen Ai might be the best brainstorming tool ever created. This part of it I love.
it's so refreshing to see a nuanced (and fun) take on how AI might affect an industry that isn't filled with reductive "AI is dumb and the devil / AI will solve all the world's ills" rants. how these tools may change design is an interesting thought experiment, too.
however, i'd suggest Dami using AI vs untrained 'designers' using AI vs architects not using AI. because that's what it will come down to - i'd trust her taste augmented with AI tools.
(also, The Loop looked way cooler to me)
The waterfall design is nice, but what happens if it's windy? You'll likely need to hire someone to clean up the water daily and ensure there's no wind when passing by.
I’m sure there will be Architect AIs that would be capable of not only rendering nice designs, but also making plans, selecting materials by their properties and creating a model that could be built by real robots using Constructor AIs.
Such a brilliant approach to the topic, well done Dami, you're so talented indeed 👏
10:46 gave me the chills
That last bit felt so MGS2 it gave me chills. This video was so much fun to watch 🤗
Very funny Human v AI. But those designs were really striking. Loved them both. The water idea had me feeling a little nervous though. Beautiful concept. But I wouldn't sleep too well in fear of a wayward log floating down the creek after a storm, interrupting my sleep with a sudden and wet moment of absolute chaos. :)
Great episode. Thanks for the share.
I just started architecture school and looking forward to every challenge ahead. Hope everything goes very smoothly for me and every new student like me.
Also wanted to say, ever since I discovered this channel the production level has improved significantly
I have two architectural challenges for you looming ahead. First - the toilet pipe in my house is leaking. How would you approach to fix it? Second - why should I pick YOU to fix my toilet pipe when there are literal dozens of thousands of people on the market who will do it basically for the cost of the meal for tonight?
Incredible video as always! Really looking forward to updates on Orenda!! Keep us updated!
I would love to experience any of those retreats, ive always loved the visual of a luxury structure that mixes with nature
grand episode , looks like you guys had a whole lot of physical fun making this one
You might as well be making a sequel to “The Menu”. The Menu 2 The Wrath of Ramsey.
I have better names for the designs: 1. The Single Point of Failure 2. The Long Walk, 3. The Drowner vs. AI's The Cut and Pasted
I loved the metaphor at the end with the AI-Dami wearing glasses, showing us that its adapting skills will eventually enable it to acquire creative talent indistinguishable from that of humans.
It was either that or Dami just forgot to take off her glasses for that shot... :-)
It’s going to be rocky for creatives across sectors. I think we all thought AI would take care of the tedious, undesirable jobs in life we all hate doing, but instead it found its best use-cases in the prestige, white collar jobs we all vie for already. I know someone will chime in with, “Yeah but it’s just a tool and we have to adapt and we’ll find new ways,” and all that, but the sober objective truth is there is no outcome in which AI doesn’t kill off a MASSIVE amount of human jobs - especially in the creative and knowledge-based sectors.
Future designs run through humans and generative diffusion models and other AI stuff, will become more dreamlike, more homely, more emotional, and more immersive, inspirational, while still maintaining an efficient and affordable engineerable design.
Ai art would be perfect for getting inspiration for dream environments. You could even combine ai and cgi to make accurate dreams for movies
Been working in engineering for almost 30 years. The prospect of not having to deal with human architects does have a certain appeal, has to be said. 🙂
Great video as ever.
you where reading my mind
Like when the massive cantilever building was suggested 😂
@@LashanR I was more worried of the semi sumerged desing with fake waterfall that will become filled with moss and stop working in a month, but the cantileveler at least that is kind of doable, building a half a bridge in place with prestressed cables and need another house just as counterweight.
I mean sure but do you want to buid AI generated mess on real world too which has no real knowledge or code. I think you would have more problem unless someone has to fix them. Imagine a client didn't hire Architect and generate everything buy themselves and give you the contractor ti build it as exact as you can. You still gonna need to fix alot.
Thanks for this brilliant video. The „submerged“ design is a really cool idea, but it is not really submerged is it? It is just an optical illusion created by the sloping pathway? And the water is taken from the lake, so it only costs electricity (maybe there could be solar panels on the different pavilions) ? For a moment I thought you actually planned to submerge a part, it would be very cool to have an underwater (inside the aquarium) view, but with the latest catastrophe of a gigantic aquarium collapsing in a hotel space I think insurance companies might be skeptical. Also you made this design about the „chef being on the center stage“ and that is indeed something that Ramsey might like. The other design is pretty generic, maybe the AI did not consider or did not know much about Mr Ramseys personality? 😂
When I was working in game development in Japan, I had an Art Director who had a brilliant but very distinct style that was really hard to copy for the other designers and a director who was super difficult to work with and only accepted stuff the Art Director (actually his younger brother) made. We had to invest a lot of energy to match our designs to the Art directors distinct style, because he simply could not design every little piece of the game himself. I think with the new AI tools it would be possible to maintain autonomy and ideas and still match a super distinct style to maintain artistic coherence.
Dami Attenborough had me laughing out loud in public :D Wonderful video!
I really like the concept, AI doesn't really know how to construct a concept.
Great video, nice narrative about all the "AI-vs-Human" issues.
... just a potential glitch on the human side of the backstory: chefs use very dry powders like flour & spices, which clump in humidity. Maybe check that if you ever have an actual chef as a client.
Looking forward to part 3 of this contest. It's very interesting to see the progress of the AI tools. Perhaps next time you get to use Firefly.
Fascinating, thank you!
“Come here. Sit down. OK you little shit, you’re gonna help us win. OK?!” (Head pats). Demi is suuper serious! 🧐😂
It is an interesting field of research and application, but it is not quite there yet, in many cases (or you will need an array of Nvidia A100 GPUs with hundreds of GB of VRAM to get decent results).
Thank you for the show and thanks to HP for sponsoring.
Oof, the AI-generated concept is so generic. I guess the pictures are pretty, but...pretty doesn't mean interesting. A town's worth of energy & water used to create something I've seen a hundred times? I'm not seeing the value.
That's exactly why AI shouldn't be used for creativity. The use cases she gave at the end are much better than trying to replace human ingenuity with AI copies.
It's weird that people like it though. People voted for it even though the AI project was less interesting and at same time not technically correct. I think this is why AI is kind of dangerous - you might think something is easy, when in fact there are lots of hidden errors, errors your manager might not see...
I still feel like the future is MLM (medium) and not LLM. Making a model specifically trained for Architecture with a deep knowledge of engineering as well would produce much more tailored results. Ideally to avoid theft of information and prior work a firm or individual could train the model on just their own information (rather than steal from others without their consent).
Stealing is fun do
Very fascinating video! And funny as I am here playing with AI art while watching this, and my dayjob is currently supporting the code for some AI tooling too. Loved what you said at the end of our job becoming 'filtering'. One of the earliest art quotes I remember was 'a beginner artist knows how to create art, a good artist knows which creations weren't good'. Photography had this happen too - everyone with a cellphone is now a photographer and can do all the edits it took me years to learn. But I know when to do them, not to do them, and which images to send to a client.
Yea, I think AI will automate a ton of things (wouldn't call them 'boring things', they're fun), but the (professional) AI user is needing deeper and deeper knowledge of their fields to separate, categorize, and filter out the thousands of things AI produces. Because this generation of AI lacks one thing - not 'emotion' (sociopaths can fake love), but understanding of what it is doing and why. The only reason it doesn't put toilets on the ceiling is because there are no pictures in its database of toilets on the ceiling, not because it understands toilets shouldn't be on the ceiling.
Not to mention that you have the infinite-photocopy problem. The more people use AI tools, the more the ingested content comes from AI tools instead of people, the more 'errors' will replicate each year, month, day... until you Do get toilets on the ceiling (or much more subtle and critical problems). Unless professional users are around to point out 'hey, no, don't do That!'
Very interesting as always! You make an interesting point in the wrap-up about the AI-generated designs lacking doors, etc. All 3 human designs could be fleshed out and built as they were dreamed up because *you* can't get away from the knowledge that you're designing for the real world and humans. For the AI designs, there might be no pathway from the render to reality that didn't massively distort the intent. Where do you put those doors and corridors and such to keep the intent while turning something impossible/impractical into something useful?
cant say I like this more than your normal videos
Gonna be brutally honest, the fact that you lost is more than anything an indictment of the taste of the people on your Discord. The AI generated designs were inferior in basically every way if you look at them for more than 3 seconds. Is AI impressive? Of course. However my main takeaway from witnessing the reaction to generated images has been that visual literacy is in dire straits.
The AI generated design was neat but boring, when comparing to the human team's one.