What does AI (Artificial Intelligence) mean for interior design?
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While interior design isn't usually the first thing that comes into your head when considering the uses of AI, it's certainly making waves.
在考慮人工智慧的使用時，室內設計通常不是你首先想到的事情，但它確實引起了震動。
by Dmytro Spilka (article) and Jane Flowers (video)
AI will have an impact on interior design - VideoArtificial Intelligence often gets a bad rap on the silver screen. In Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," an omnipotent computer named HAL 9000 sets upon wiping out all life on its spaceship after noticing that its human occupants were planning to turn him off. The 1984 film, "The Terminator," focuses on AI's attempt at destroying the human race altogether.人工智慧在銀幕上經常受到批評。在斯坦利·庫布裡克(Stanley Kubrick)執導的《2001:太空漫遊》(2001:A Space Odyssey)中，一臺名叫HAL 9000的全能電腦在注意到飛船上的人類太空人計劃把它關掉後，消滅了飛船上所有的生命。1984年的電影《終結者》(The Terminator)講述了人工智慧試圖徹底毀滅人類的故事。
This all makes for pretty bleak reading when all you want to do is furnish your living room. But luckily Hollywood AI's real-life counterparts are proving to be a lot more helpful and generally less destructive.
While interior design isn't usually the first thing that comes to mind when considering the uses of AI, it's certainly Making Waves in bringing great results when utilised for decorating homes.
Alexey Sheremetyev, the co-founder of AI infused interior design tool, Planner 5D, said of artificial intelligence's role in the industry, 「Currently, only professional designers know design rules and techniques. Our vision is to empower everyone to become interior designers with an app that combines AI with virtual reality.」
Sheremetyev's words seem ominous for professionals who earn a living in interior design, but the introduction of AI tools seem to point further towards creating a synergy between client and professional that's capable of bridging the gaps between a customer's ideas and that which is practical through excellent and intuitive visualisation tools and structural calculations.
A future we can all subscribe to.
當你想要做的只是裝飾你的客廳時，這一切都讓你的閱讀變得相當黯淡。但幸運的是，事實證明，好萊塢人工智慧在現實生活中的作用要大得多，破壞力也小得多。
當考慮到人工智慧的使用時，室內設計通常不是第一個浮現在腦海中的東西，但當它被用於裝飾家庭時，它肯定會帶來巨大的效果。
人工智慧室內設計工具Planner 5D的聯合創始人Alexey Sheremetyev在談到人工智慧在行業中的作用時說:「目前，只有專業設計師知道設計規則和技術。我們的願景是通過一款結合人工智慧和虛擬實境的應用，讓每個人都能成為室內設計師。」
Planner 5D想讓每個人都成為室內設計師
Sheremetyev的話似乎不利室內設計專業人士謀生,但引入人工智慧工具似乎點進一步創建一個客戶端和專業之間的協同作用能夠彌合差距客戶的想法和實際的通過優秀的和直觀的可視化工具和結構計算。
一個我們都認同的未來。
人工智慧滲透市場
Moodfit就是這樣一款人工智慧產品，它的任務是彌合客戶和設計師之間的鴻溝。這個工具依靠它的算法來匹配顧客的品味，並計算出他們理想的「風格」。這個過程邀請用戶做一個簡短的測試，然後根據給出的答案將他們與網絡中有相同想法的室內設計師配對。
Moodfit的模型承諾為用戶找到他們完美的專業設計師，而不需要從無數的作品集中篩選，也不需要從那些不一定擁有相同願景的專業人士那裡碰碰運氣。
鑑於這裡使用的是高度基於圖像的算法，很難避免與Tinder等人工智慧約會應用進行比較，而Moodfit在某種程度上是一種配對工具。
Moodfit就是一個例子，它表明人工智慧的應用有利於客戶和室內設計專業人士的生活，而不是技術在無意中讓設計師失業。
革命性的工具
另一方面，Digital Trends的張璐璐(音譯)則成功地將Planner 5D這樣的應用程式作為一種革命性的工具，讓用戶有能力成為自己的室內設計師——「當你可以僱傭一臺機器來設計你的房子時，為什麼還要僱傭人類來設計呢?」張在她作品的開頭問道。
諮詢公司Tractica預測，到2025年，人工智慧應用行業的價值將達到600億美元，而像Planner 5D這樣的應用程式正希望通過它們的室內設計自動化解決方案，從中分得一份橫財。
與上述Moodfit類似，Planner 5D利用算法，通過研究和學習超過4000萬個現實生活項目來了解用戶通常是如何裝飾他們的房間的——從燈光設備到電視放置等等。
該工具擅長於允許用戶通過借鑑現有的想法和從平面上建立的基礎來可視化和渲染整個住宅。
Lexset將於2018年第二季度推出，它將進一步利用人工智慧的力量，並將其與增強現實相結合，為您提供一項內在的服務，只需按一下按鈕，就可以為您的房間帶來全新的面貌。該工具利用智慧型手機或平板電腦攝像頭，並通過面部和物體識別來識別空間中的現有家具，然後查閱其龐大的家居改進目錄，以便嵌入到房間中。
《福布斯》謹慎地預測，Lexset將通過人工智慧和AR技術的結合，以及它將給用戶帶來的能力，「給室內設計帶來革命」。
儘管新興的技術力量正籠罩著這個行業，室內設計業務教練阿利西亞•威克(Alysia Wicker)駁斥了人工智慧將很快覆蓋房屋重新設計業務的說法。
「與人溝通是室內設計真正的未來。花時間去見你的客戶，了解你的客戶，成為你客戶的擁護者，這不是人工智慧能做到的。只有用心的設計師才能做到這一點。」
這一反駁顯然是慷慨激昂的，並強調了室內設計師和他們的AI同行所面臨的僵局。
AI infiltrating the marketOne such piece of artificial intelligence that's tasked itself with bridging the gap between client and designer is Moodfit. This tool relies on its algorithms to match a customer's taste and calculate their ideal 'style'. The process invites users to take a brief quiz and pairs them with a likeminded interior designer in their network based on the answers given.Moodfit's model promises to find users their perfect professional designer, without having to resort to sifting through countless portfolios or bouncing ideas off of professionals that don't necessarily share the same vision.
Given the highly image-based algorithms at play here, the comparisons to AI dating apps like Tinder are hard to avoid, and Moodfit is something of a matchmaking tool.Moodfit is an example of AI being utilised in a way that benefits the lives of both clients and interior design professionals, rather than the technology inadvertently keeping designers out of a job.Revolutionary toolLulu Chang, of Digital Trends, on the other hand, triumphs applications like Planner 5D as a revolutionary tool that'll bring users the power to become interior designers in their own right - "Why hire a human to design your home when you can just hire a machine?" Chang asks at the beginning of her piece.Tractica predicts that the AI application industry will be worth $60 billion by 2025, and apps like Planner 5D are looking to command their fair share of that windfall through their automated solutions to interior design.Similarly to the aforementioned Moodfit, Planner 5D utilises algorithms that studies and learns from over 40 million real-life projects to gain an understanding of how users typically decorate their rooms - from light fittings to television placement and more.The tool excels in allowing users to visualise and render entire homes by drawing on existing ideas and building from the foundation of a floorplan up.Arriving in Q2 of 2018, Lexset looks to further tap into the power of AI and combine it with augmented reality to offer an intrinsic service that can provide your room with a makeover at the touch of a button. The tool utilises a smartphone or tablet camera and uses facial and object recognition to identify existing furniture in a space before consulting its vast catalogue for home improvements that can be embedded into the room.Forbes modestly predicted that Lexset will "revolutionise interior design" through its combination of AI and AR technologies and the power it will bring to users.Despite the burgeoning power of technology looming over the industry, interior design business coach, Alysia Wicker, refutes the notion that AI is soon to envelop the business of redesigning homes."Connecting with humans is the real future of interior design. Taking the time to see your client, to understand your client and to be an advocate for your client is not something that AI can do. Only a designer with a heart can do that," explained Wicker.This retort is clearly impassioned and highlights the impasse that interior designers and their AI counterparts are faced with.Design through analogue means is a noble skill that features techniques that can now be replicated by machine learning, while artificial intelligence offers an unprecedented level of convenience and resource that's unable to react to unexpected customer whims and suggestions in quite the same way as an industry professional can.Regardless of the rave reviews that are accumulated by the ever-increasingly powerful AI programs and applications and the counterpoints on how machines can't replicate the artistry and adaptability of human designers, it's fair to say that technology has pushed interior design into uncharted territory. It would seem the solution that guarantees a thriving future for both camps would revolve around industry professionals embracing the intricacy of AI and using it to aid the process of visualising their client's needs.編者按：本文中AI將對室內設計行業的衝擊，主要是對家庭裝修行業，公共空間的設計由於多樣性和複雜性，短期內AI很難取代，尤其是方案設計的人腦創意性，歷來是AI專家眼中難以替代的元素。當下疫情催促了AI的時間表，從業設計師應更加有目的的增強創意能力，避免不久的將來，被AI取而代之的命運！