FEATURE WILL AI ELIMINATE DESIGN WORK? EXPLORING THE FUTURE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON THE DESIGN PROFESSIONS BY OLIVER GILLINGS-PECK Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic of discussion amongst businesses, media outlets and scientists alike. Most people talking about AI are either seriously concerned about the future of their jobs being taken over by machines, or are overjoyed with the idea that a huge reduction in labor costs coupled with higher rates of productivity are just on the horizon. LIVING ARCHITECTURE MONITOR / FALL FALL2019 2019 // 30 30 A I is both a controversial and complex topic, involving the functioning of several different types of technologies such as automation and robotics. So how will AI likely impact the architecture, landscape architecture and engineering professions? Artificial intelligence can be thought of in two distinct but related respects. The first respect involves the historical and academic interpretation of "true" AI. This is the idea of a machine that can match or even exceed the abilities of human consciousness. In his 1950 seminal paper, Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing conceived of an ingenious way to determine whether or not a machine has achieved true AI. He created the "Turing Test" in which a machine and a human are placed behind a screen and answer questions from an interrogator through a sheet of paper. At the end of the experiment the interrogator must determine which of the hidden agents is the machine and which is the human, based on how they answered the questions. If the interrogator cannot distinguish between the human and the machine it is correct to say that the machine can LIVINGARCHITECTUREMONITOR.COMhttp://www.LIVINGARCHITECTUREMONITOR.COM