- Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:58 pm
#309210
The bits that I do understand I think are completely wrong.
The only people who tell us that AI will replace architects, are those who don't actually properly understand what we really do.
leceta wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 11:30 pm On AI and coding literacy:I'm sorry, the words are in English, and they are all in the right order, but I'm struggling to understand this.
"State of the art machine intelligence today is usually provided as libraries of code, written by large-scale influential companies, (for example Google’s TensorFlow or Facebook’s Pytorch) structured by professional engineers such that the involved architectonics and procedures conform and reinforce the engineering problem-solving mindset. Anyone not able or willing to adhere to this mode of operation—for example architecture, which is neither a discipline, nor it is strictly about problem solving—is kept at a safe distance, and offered tools and tutorials. The knowledge about a computational concept, for example a much-hyped GAN, is offered to the peers as a complex technical paper, and to the rest, simply as a library of code to be played with. If an architect, willing to reinvent her field in today’s novel and significant technological context wishes to acquire the necessary literacy to navigate the space where the knowledge is created and negotiated, she faces considerable difficulties. Prerequisites to enter the field are the same as for future engineers, along with pedagogic principles. If, on the other hand, we are unwilling to pursue this literacy, we are once again in a situation to simply accept the tools and let them write our legacy. However, this time, the shortcut that we would be taking might have far greater consequences than before. It could, in fact, do a great honour to computer science by allowing it to turn a three-thousand-year-old legacy of architecture into one of its particular specialisations."
Nikola Marinçic
The bits that I do understand I think are completely wrong.
The only people who tell us that AI will replace architects, are those who don't actually properly understand what we really do.