AI has made significant strides in the interior design industry, automating tasks such as space planning, furniture selection, and color palette recommendations. The future of interior design will likely involve a blend of AI-driven tools and human expertise, enhancing efficiency and precision. AI can augment the design process by offering tools, generating design options, or assisting with data analysis. However, the value of human creativity, expertise, and the ability to connect with clients remains crucial.
AI-driven interior design solutions can speed up and reduce costs for various jobs, such as material acquisition, layout planning, and budget management. While AI-generated interior design projects may not be unique or creative, they can coexist. AI has the potential to assist designers in various ways, such as providing personalized recommendations for clients or automating certain tasks.
The question of whether AI will completely replace interior designers is often raised, but it should be seen as a valuable tool that augments and enhances their capabilities. AI can influence and transform these professions, but it is unlikely to completely replace them. AI can be used to automate certain aspects of design, such as generating layouts or creating layouts.
In the pursuit of determining whether AI can replace human interior design, it is essential for interior designers to stay up-to-date with the latest AI applications by following news from leading companies and the opinions of top professionals. AI can now assist designers by automating tasks like space planning, furniture selection, and color palette recommendations. However, there are concerns in the design community about AI, such as unethical designers and the lack of credit for AI images on social media.
📹 Will AI replace Interior Designers?
In this video I try some new AI tools and platforms and I talk about whether I think that AI will replace interior designers’ jobs.
📹 Can AI Truly Replace Architects?
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Many people still depend and will be dependent on interior designers for their work, not AI so I think AI won’t take over.It may take many jobs away but AI isn’t a person with feelings who can fill in the spaces like we have made up in our heads.An interior designer listens and makes the sketch the way the client wants.AI can’t do it, AI can’t fill the feeling of “home”, atleast not as better as humans.
Hi, I am a Quantity surveyor graduate. But after graduate, I just found out that I don’t really like Quantity surveying . The thing I have found out after I graduate is that I think I like Interior design because I like to see beautiful thing and I like the space to be well designed. Other than design and implement the design into the projects I don’t really know what does a interior designer really do. I feel so lost after I have graduated. Do you have any advice on my case ?
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No matter who you are, what your job is, it will be automated. The only people necessary are the ones that make money by owning the robots or the companies they automate. This will centralize money into the very, very few by making sure no one has jobs in any major business and no one can afford to buy from any business which doesn’t automate all its jobs away. If this doesn’t concern you, you’re blinding yourself. Something must be done- holding businesses accountable for the jobs they’re automating, setting up UBI, making these robots open source so anyone can make them and use them- something. Robots will not make a post scarcity society, they will construct the opposite. If we do nothing we will return to peasantry and feudalism under the thumbs of hypercorporations.
I have little doubt that many companies will work to reshape the entire process of whatever they create in order to account for any failure points within automation. I’ve worked in warehousing before, and that’s exactly what it looks like there. I don’t trust corporations to account for workers when considering automation, and I believe that’s going to become the norm for most work, regardless of what the work comprises of. They’ll automate what they can, and they’ll change the function of workers to assist in that, until whatever shape the automation comes in, be that machinery or computers, can replace the workers entirely. Doesn’t matter if it’s detrimental to creativity or consumer experience. Automation’s been turning things we thought were safe jobs into purely boutique experiences since the industrial revolution. And I think we could use some modern luddism if we’re going to ensure, if not jobs, than at least regulation of modern automation practices and a general reshaping of public opinion on the value of workers, including architects. Sorry for the bummer take, I enjoy your vids a lot. 🙂
Planners and architects should not be replaced by ai entirely, just better technologies and programs should be worked in to our fields. Ex: a ai program that shows you building layouts that conform to the by law and OP, one that would require a couple minor variances and one that would require a ZBAs
Can AI replace Doctors? Can AI replace Lawyers? Can AI replace Teachers? Can AI replace Artist? Can AI replace Programmers? Can AI replace My Parents? (Woops!) If it can truly replace everyone’s jobs, we will all peacefully hold hands and disappear together. You are not alone. Don’t worry about that too much.
A big factor I never hear mentioned in the debate is liability. I doubt any insurance company would insure a company using AI generated CDs. It would be extremely difficult to create an AI that is able to follow ANSI, the building code, and local codes across all building types while staying in budget. The first company to design a building CDs with AI that leaks or has code violations is going to be sued out of business quickly. I could see AI taking on simple pre-engineered metal buildings, maybe upfits for a corporation, prototype architecture modifications, but more complex ground up buildings seems unlikely. Liability, code compliance, creating a proper assembly of a building, coordination with civil/structural/MEP systems, etc. all while staying in budget and creating a functional aesthetic building without human involvement is far away from achievable of AI in our lifetimes.
I think what you noted at the end might be key — will it completely replace architects? Not for a while. But will it replace some or a good chunk of architects (or a chunk of their billable hours)? Already the percentage of buildings in North America that involve an architect is small, and architects and design is seen by many as a needless expense. AI could be seen as a way to ‘avoid’ having to hire an architect so that executive bonuses and stock dividends can be higher. Or to have the AI do the schematic design and hire the professional only for the latter half of design development and the construction documents, turning us into executers rather than designers. And with that design and innovation could/would suffer or stagnate. (From what I understand, the cultural impression and value of architects and designers is higher in other countries/locales, so the impact and drive to cut out architects might be lessened there.) On the other side of the coin, for that great percentage of buildings that already don’t involve architects in the process, maybe the AI will be able to improve the quality of the final product… 😛 Either way, it’s a woolly path forward that could be fraught in all number of ways, and we need to engage with it while continuing to present why human design and input will always remain valuable. Like with well-done Youtube websites like this one! Great and timely article, thanks for exploring things and drawing our attention to it all. 🙂
I work for the city of Toronto in the committee of adjustment (I’m a planner) and I work with architects daily. I don’t think ai architects will be allowed anytime soon because you would have to have a liaison between the planner and the ai, unless you teach every planner how to use that program. The city is still using ibms for our file sharing, I don’t think they will splurge to teach us how to interact with an ai architects
Architects will stay. But as a mere executors of concepts made by AI. We will do the other less fulfilling tasks like positioning and drawing toilets, drawing details etc… A client can themself now do the very detailed concepts by putting several words of prompt that would “help them unleash their creativity” If I was choosing a career again I wouldn’t choose architecture, there is no creativity in that job anymore…
AI could do things like code compliance, energy calculations and other such calculative things and probably better than a human architect. AI likely already could do basic home design as well as many human architects. The main area though where AI is already superior is generating compelling images quickly.
The hidden element in this conversation is why AI is replacing many parts of architecture? Architects no longer relate to the public you serve. You are like academics. You only lobby to each other within the ivory tower. Sure the complexity of society will always be there, but you can’t get so far aware from the average person, that only the wealthy can afford your services. You are Gate keepers, and as such, the masses will go where there are the fewest gate keepers. Your industry is like the farming sector. Automation will eliminate the architect/farmer, as we know it. Farmers needed to transition to become landstewards 30 years ago, they failed to understand their gate keeping, and today technology runs farming. Architects are not immune from this. People will always be okay without architects. We won’t design rock shelters. Architecture is not sacred.
I think its a bit sad that there will be very little innovation in terms of ‘architectural style’ going forward. Since the AI basically ‘collages’ what it sees on the internet – stuff that is already done by humans in the past or right now. Style advances like art nouveau, art deco, modernism, post-modernism (stuff we learnt in architectural history class) have stopped. However, its arguable that such stylistic advances have halted even before the appearance of AI design software. I’m not completely against the saying that our styles are being determined by the softwares that we using (rhino, grasshopper? Maya etc) since they are part of human progress. Is Midjourney just another chapter? What do you think?
AI will be just another tool to allow architects to do more with less but more effectively and efficiently. It will abolish the need for technicians and technologists as mundane construction detailing is far more easily automated. Modular construction detailing is already heavily automated but will forever lack the architecture as defined by Vitruvius, and updated for the C21, as Buildable, Functional, Beautiful (objectively) and Sustainable.
consider the idea that AI won’t have to figure out how to clear the hurdles related to copyright, adherence to building standards and chain of custody of every calculation within the design process envelope, but instead the architectural design build process will evolve so that it can be handled almost exclusively by AI.
Know an Australian engineer who was sent by his firm to the Phillippines to set up an office. That way you could cut the costs of employing Australian engineers by having Filipino engineers using the same engineering software. No judgment on the skills of Filipino engineers. Everything would flow in the internet. Same could happen in architecture.
I would love for all my building code work to be done by AI so I could focus on 3D modeling (the fun part). But if I give my AI friend all the code work, it will turn evil and seek revenge. On the other hand, it might instead choose to go Terminator on the building code itself and destroy all copies, creating a quasi paradise.
Hi A.I. – is my building code ready for handicapped access for the Sydney basin ? Hi Michael it is not – would you like me to adjust the corridor width for you so it complies ? err yes please, and while your at it can you check the fire regulations for the oxygen tank storage room ? Yes Michael – you will need to upgrade the wall specification on wall 01-e to 300mm. etc etc…..
Long term architects will become prompt engineers like every other field. The human architects try to understand the customer, converts this into a prompt for the computer, the computer searches the space of possible solutions, finds the optimal one, shows it, the human validates the design or updates the prompt, then the AI generates the entire manufacturing plan, gives robots the task for how to build it etc and it’s done.
It’s not going to replace architects, yet, but it is going to reduce the number of lower level architects needed. Many of the tasks done by this new AI tech is currently done by levels lower than the project manager. So I see a need for new ways to train lower level architects to get to the point they can make the decisions a project manager can, but much fewer of them. AI is going to do to white color workers what machines did to blue color workers. Not eliminate them, but reduce the number required for many tasks.
Human Value Judgements. The essence of what architects do is make human value judgments to tell a story of human experience. AI can never know what it is like to be human, and so can never make human value judgements in any kind of authentic or meaningful way. It will never be better at being human than humans, so will always be alien to the true context of human experience. The thought of AI doing schematic design makes me cringe. Is it not an ethics violation as either an admittance of professional incompetency, or illegal practice? Also, What also worries me for future humans is a cascading loss of meaningful skill and knowledge acquisition via dependence on AI for entry level work. How is the next generation supposed to learn anything to get up to speed?