{"id":2130,"date":"2017-05-08T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T20:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/?p=2130"},"modified":"2017-05-09T15:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:19:28","slug":"future-things-get-made-harnessing-power-artificial-intelligence-next-frontier-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/future-things-get-made-harnessing-power-artificial-intelligence-next-frontier-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of How Things Get Made: Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence for the Next Frontier of Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rama Dunayevich & Mark Davis<\/p>\n

As designs become increasingly computable, the ability and ease of making changes grows exponentially.\u00a0At Autodesk, we are obsessed with harnessing the latest advances in AI to transform the way design works. Until recently, computation was finite, so we made tools that were only<\/em> directive. Our customers had to direct the tools \u2014 they<\/em> drew the lines and arcs that described their idea and decided when to run simulation on a design to explore its performance.<\/p>\n

But now, with massive GPU-accelerated computational power comes change, and we can (and have) flipped the entire process around \u2013 making the promise of computer-aided design a reality. As Autodesk CTO, Jeff Kowalski describes, \u201cOur customers no longer simulate based on a design, and not just simulate during<\/em> design, but simulate to discover<\/em> the design.\u201d<\/p>\n

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With our generative design tools, customer needs are anticipated thanks to the expanding world of computation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The result? A powerful new workflow is emerging for product and building design.<\/p>\n