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🔆 The New Architecture Toolkit: AI Beyond Imagery
How AI is reshaping the way we design and build our environment, novel techniques in selective forgetting, and bets on an agentic future.
Emma G Moller & Allegra Guinan
December 19, 2024
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🗞️ Issue 49 // ⏱️ Read Time: 7 min
Hello 👋
Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping architecture far beyond just creating realistic 2D and 3D images of proposed designs, also known as renderings. From optimizing building performance to revolutionizing the design process itself, AI is transforming how we conceive, plan, and construct our built environment.
In this week's newsletter
What we’re talking about: The ways AI is transforming architecture, not just through advanced design tools but by fundamentally reshaping the entire architectural workflow.
How it’s relevant: Architecture firms are increasingly adopting AI tools to enhance their capabilities, streamline processes, and tackle complex design challenges more efficiently.
Why it matters: The advancements in architectural practices driven by AI have implications for various sectors, including real estate, construction, and urban planning. As architecture firms adopt these technologies, they set new standards that ripple through related industries and ultimately shape our environment.
Big tech news of the week…
🍎Five innovative technologies have been selected by the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for “AI Airlock”, a pilot scheme to understand better how we can regulate AI-powered medical devices in a way that enables safe and fast-paced innovation.
◼️Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have introduced "black-box forgetting," a novel technique allowing AI models to selectively forget specific information, enhancing efficiency and privacy while reducing computational waste.
♊ Google launched Gemini 2.0, their new model for the agentic era. This release, which comes with a major investment in infrastructure, demonstrates the company’s bet on the future of human-computer interaction. Due to the many questions AI agents open up for safety and security, Google claims to be taking an exploratory approach to developing these new technologies.
⚖️ ChatGPT whistleblower found dead by suicide. In recent months he had publicly spoken out against OpenAI's practices.