The Worst AI You'll Ever Use
📰 Whatever AI you're using today is the worst you'll ever use. Julian Geiger of the Nemetschek Group on why old verdicts on AI go stale, why models are getting better at drawing faster than at judging, and why AI without your project history saves nothing.
When did you last try the AI tool you already decided wasn't ready?
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TL;DR: On TRXL 249 I talked with Julian Geiger, Chief AI Officer at the Nemetschek Group, the parent company of Graphisoft, Bluebeam, Allplan, Solibri and more. He sees AEC's biggest problems as process, collaboration and information problems more than technology problems. He wants AI to take the code lookups and documentation off your plate, and he thinks design judgment is where architects hold their value. His advice for firms costs almost nothing: use the tools yourself, keep using them as they change, and get your project data in order.
Here are three ideas from the conversation.
1. Your last bad experience has an expiration date
“Whatever you're using today, it will be the worst AI of your entire lifetime that you're using today. So wait three weeks, another big model release will come.” (28:06)
I told Julian about my 2014 Subaru. Its lane keeping tech is so harsh that I turn it off. A lot of architects had the same experience with a chatbot two years ago and stopped there. Julian's view is that the verdict goes stale even if it was right at the time. He tells his own team to build for use cases that don't work yet, because three to six months from now they will.
For your firm: Any "we tried it, it doesn't work" decision older than six months is due for a retest.
