What if AI Apprentices Outperform Their Human Counterparts?

Year 2020, Volume: 1 Issue: 3, 153 - 166, 30.09.2020

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Abstract

The focus of this study is to draw a vision of how architects have been augmented by computers in the last decades and how computer aided architecture may now evolve into artificial intelligence aided architecture where architecture’s knowledge base is handed over to an AI. The vision is depicted in correspondence with the ages of human evolution. Implicit knowledge of architecture is therefore explored in connection with the hierarchi of data/information/knowledge and wisdom. Therefore the conceptual levels of AI as the narrow AI, general AI and superintelligent AI are introduced to the reader in the context of defining the current scene and the possible future of AI applications. The narrow AI applications are independently being worked on at several different domains. This work introduces a hypothetical architect AI that learns all the knowledge of architecture during the knowledge age and later links itself to AGI in the wisdom age. An emphasis is put on occupant centric approach that architects should take on if they would want to train their future apprentices for the best and customized space creation practices. Whithin this context the output of AI produced designs are discussed in terms of whether they may still be considered “design”.

Keywords

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, artificial intelligence aided architect, Architectural knowledge, occupant-centric design

What if AI Apprentices Outperform Their Human Counterparts?

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın odak noktası, mimarinin bilgi tabanı bir yapay zekaya teslim edildiğinde bilgisayar destekli mimarinin artık yapay zeka destekli mimariye (AIAA) nasıl dönüşebileceğine dair bir vizyon çizmektir. Bu nedenle böyle bir mimarinin vizyonu, insanın evriminin çağlarına uygun olarak tasvir edilmiştir. Bu nedenle, mimarlığın örtük bilgisi, veri / bilgi / bilgi birikimi ve bilgelik hiyerarşisi ile bağlantılı olarak incelenmektedir. Bu nedenle, AI uygulamalarının mevcut durumunu ve olası geleceğini tanımlama bağlamında, Yapay Dar Zekâ (YDZ)I, Yapay Genel Zekâ (YGZ) ve Yapay Süper Zekâ (YSZ)olarak kavramsal seviyeleri okuyucuya tanıtılmaktadır. Dar yapay zeka uygulamaları, farklı alanlarda birbirinden bağımsız olarak çalışılmaktadır. Bu çalışma, bilgi çağında mimarlığın tüm bilgisini öğrenen ve daha sonra kendisini bilgelik çağında YGZ'ye bağlayan varsayımsal bir mimar yapay zekayı okuyucuya sunulmaktadır. Mimarların, gelecekteki çıraklarını en iyi ve özelleştirilmiş mekanları yaratma uygulamaları için eğitmek istiyorlarsa üstlenmeleri gereken, kullanıcı odaklı yaklaşıma vurgu yapılmaktadır. Bu bağlamda, yapay zeka ile üretilen çıktıların, hala “tasarım” olarak kabul edilip edilemeyeği tartışılmaktadır.

Keywords

Yapay Zeka, Yapay Genel Zeka, yapay zeka destekli mimar, Mimarlık bilgisi, kullanıcı odaklı tasarım

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