Is AI taking over the design process?
With AI-generated images of the Pope in a white down coat spreading rapidly on social media, and the increasing relevance and awareness of ChatGPT, it is clear that AI applications are long past the research stage. This year has seen an increase in announcements from major technology companies regarding the integration of AI-powered systems into their product portfolios, with both interest and the pace of development increasing rapidly. What took Netflix around three and a half years and Instagram still two and a half months to achieve, OpenAI managed to do with its ChatGPT application within five days – a user base of one million people. Some of the AI systems had been in development for years with much less visibility, but since the release of ChatGPT to the general public, a gold-rush atmosphere seems to have broken out and research and development is largely continuing in the hands of the big companies.