When you hear the words “Artificial Intelligence”, what are the first four things that come to your mind?

1. Arnold Schwarzenegger

2. AI Home

3. AI Generated Paintings

4. Siri

Think about the devices and/or digital services you use daily. Write below a list of the top three that are present in your life.

1. iPhone

2. New York Times

3. Amazon

4. ESPN

Have these things ever surprised you by guessing something about you that you didn’t expect?

• Amazon would make suggestions related to the recent purchases.

• One day I was talking to my fiancée about buying some kitchen accessories from Alessi. A few minutes later when I opened the New York Times app, the ad from Alessi showed up.

Device or digital service with AI and AI function(s):

• email inbox - spam filtering

• check deposit - virtual assistant, handwriting recognition

• texting and mobile keyboards - handwriting recognition

• netflix - recommendation engines

• google (searching function) - machine translation, spam filtering, conversational systems

• social media platforms - virtual assistant, facial recognition, spam filtering

• automated messages systems - virtual assistant, spam filtering

What do we gain by having AI in our everyday lives?

• less spam emails

• more secure online banking system

• more efficient workflow

• ads with better quality

What do we lose by having AI in our daily lives?

• can become lazier

• rely more on automated products

• become less creative

Identify a problem that you see in your life, neighborhood, or community and design an AI system that could help address this problem.

Professional practice is a very crucial part in architecture. However, architects need to memorize a lot of codes. There are codes for either the country and different states. Codes are too important to mess up but the human brain can sometimes find difficulties processing all these codes. I think AI will be able to help the architects address this problem.

Humans will manually put in both the codes and some precedent cases for AI to study. Codes are different by different states, cities, or even counties. Based on the specific codes and cases for each location, AI will be able to learn how to refer the right codes to specific projects, hopefully.