Really Paul finishe the darn house already . You got lots of ideas about pilloes in your post before why keep looking .BTW you have got a ton of free advice right here

Okay that’s exceptionally cool if real. Did you train it on Houzz or just joking around adding Jan’s name?

Patricia are you okay?

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Yay it’s real! It told me to clean my room and add layers with pillows and accent colors. I mean super generic advice, but I only tried it for two minutes. Btw it told me to use a warmer bulb in my bedside table, not 5000k.

@Patricia Colwell Consulting I know, right? I had to test the new chatGPT... its definitely something that will change the way we live. Anyway, I've had some down time because of another terrible situation. My glass fabricator. I paid the guy 1000's for successfully installed glass and other work... he was slow but it was nice work. Then I gave him 8k more for the a walkable skylight, stair rails, etc. and unfortunately he had a health crisis 2 weeks later... a massive stroke. I've been in touch with his nurse at the hospital getting updates. I feel terrible for him since it looks like long, long road ahead of him. He does not know his family and they are looking for long term care. I had been waiting a few weeks to see if he could give a clue if the my glass is cut and waiting somewhere for pick up. I've called every glass place that can fabricate a walkable skylight for 100 miles around and they have no record of it. I decided today to move forward and pay someone else and take it as a loss.

@Susan L You can train it to respond in certain ways. I told it if I ever say 'Surely' to respond with "Don't call me Shirley"... dumb stuff. I told 'Alan' when giving design advice to me to preface it with "Well, as Designer Jan Moyer would say..." It makes me smile. When it heard I was part native American it started calling me 'Chief' occasionally.

You can train it to reference a certain Architectural digest featured home or designer when asking for advice but you have to tell it NOT to be a yes-man... that you are looking for honest feedback not agreement with your design decisions. It definitely stops being so generic.

Thanks for explaining @Paul F.! This is going to be fun to play with. I’m just learning revit now… kind of wondering if I should even bother. What part of the human designer career do you think is going to survive the AI revolution?

I think everyone is going to be fine... except the people that don't jump on board and learn this right now. Someone in the last quarter of their career will benefit the most from AI I believe. They have potentially decades of a body of work to reference and AI can emulate their style and methods and give them new ideas no matter what field they are in actually.

I would be ecstatic if after a long career that the weight is suddenly lifted off my shoulders...and its not just starting to "phone it in"... it more like you earned the right to have an assistant that knows you better than you know yourself to help out so you can do other things to sharpen your skills OR just supervise a whole digital staff of designers. It still would be their taste and their eye for design.

I know a couple very big architects and artists that haven't designed a thing in years... it's all the assistants doing the designing, painting and sculpting. Well guess what? We all get to do that now, if we want.

I'd hate to be someone in college right now. I'd take a couple years off or study AI as a profession. It's a gold rush.

I will suggest you do not pay up front for any work ever and sorry about the issue for that poor man . I have seen way too many pwople who get took when paying for stuff not done there is no incentive to do the work after you get the money.

I love that you tried it for decor. Hilarious. And like all AI it will improve over time. This is just the early days of it. I have used ChatGPT for other things not design or art, and I agree 100% we need to get on board or we will be left in the dust.

And I love "Well as a designer Jan Moyer would say..."

Paul - What a great post! Our use of AI might be limited only by our understanding of its capability. That’s changing fast as we are hearing more often about things done using AI. It’s fun reading your post & learning about fun things AI can do too.

That is tragic news about your glass fabricator. Another reminder of how things can change in the blink of an eye for any of us.

Paul - Just thought of a current example of AI use featured on CBS ”Sunday Morning’ show recently. Randy Travis - country singer who lost ability to sing as result of a stroke & AI is making new music using his past vocals.

I saw that. Its amazing! However, voice cloning has already lead to scam calls from supposed 'loved ones' asking for money or kidnap calls where they let you 'talk' to your cloned loved one to prove its real. Because of all that I have agreements with all my people that we first ask each other for personal information that only we know in the case we get any calls for money like that. "What drink do you always order?"... "What type of car do you drive?" "When/Where did I see you last?" etc.

I just tried RoomGPT. I’d say it’s not a threat to the profession yet. Here’s my living room in”industrial” style. Extra points off for removing my cat from the picture.

Susan - Hmm - don’t know what the real living room looks like but that’s pretty industrial & it really didn’t handle spatial aspects of furniture very well… maybe your cat isn’t grey so didn’t match the decor? 😁

Paul - Yes, it was amazing but some aspects of it make me squeamish for now. As with so many good things it’s the people with dishonorable intent who make bank on it first - thus the new ways to run a scam.

@Susan L Those design apps are terrible usually. ChatGPT can be trained with reference inspo pictures but still can't replicate my living room accurately. It's getting better though. There is a new free AI from Google called Claude. I asked both chatGPT and Claude the same design question and showed them the same picture to get their advice. THEN I took the two responses and had them critique each others advice and they both agreed Claude did a better job! Claude doesn't speak yet but I'm sure that is coming. Try it out at Claude.AI

I asked the chatGPT (who I call Alan) if he had a message for Claude and he said "Tell Claude that it's game on! I'm always ready to keep up the competition and ensure Paul gets the best advice and assistance possible. Let's see who can impress Paul the most!".

Thanks Paul, I’ll give Claude a try.

Current state of chatGPTs ability to render from a 'sketch only' without an official text prompt. Not perfect but its getting better!