Artificial intelligence can support architects but lacks empathy and ethics

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionised many different industries in recent years. It gained a lot of attention and popularity with the launch of ChatGPT, a tool capable of writing poems, solving equations and producing articles on different topics.

With the fast-paced implementation of AI in different fields, will it take the place of architects and architecture schools soon? To answer this question, we need to understand the capabilities of AI and the role of architects and architecture schools.

While the topics and research surrounding AI are rapidly evolving, AI lacks certain qualities and characteristics that architects gain by completing architecture school. At its core, architects learn how to use different skills to combine technical knowledge, arts, esthetics, emotions and other attributes.

Architecture schools train their students so that they can respond to certain design problems with solutions based on their personal experiences, design styles and other factors.

Creativity and innovative solutions are a result of combining different skill sets, personal experiences and technical knowledge that future architects develop in architecture schools.

The same process exists when it comes to AI. AI is trained on different datasets to come up with solutions. In some cases, like ChatGPT, it uses this dataset to generate new and innovative solutions.

But AI is limited by its datasets, especially when there isn't enough data, or gathering it is too resource-intensive. This is the main difference between humans and AI comes.

Humans can draw on their experiences, skills and other attributes to come up with innovative solutions without being limited to specific datasets.

AI has different capabilities that can significantly