Evidence-based, human-centred augmented intelligence: how to flip the design paradigm upside down

Diego Padilla-Phillips

Artificial intelligence is enabling us to design and build the optimal building from the outset, says Diego Padilla-Philipps. This means we can add value, improve performance and reduce the cost

We all have a bit of a Hollywood-inspired understanding of artificial intelligence. Terminator’s Skynet (or Genysis for more recent fans); HAL (Space Odyssey), VIKI (I, Robot). This humanised idea of super-AI shapes how we see the future, its potential and its risks. We then tend to overestimate the short-term impact of technology and underestimate the long run (otherwise known as Amara’s law after the American scientist and futurist Roy Amara).

But AI is already around us, in every screen that we look at. It is present in our daily lives without us realising it.

The first generation of AI, ANI (or narrow AI), is everywhere from your car’s braking system to an aeroplane’s navigation and autopilot. Our phones, emails, music players, image editors, Instagram, TikTok – they all run on AI.

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