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The State Of Advanced Website Builders

Drew Thomas tries to find a niche for design agencies in the world of cheap websites built by advanced online builders.

Automation of Design: History

Lukasz Lysakowski digs through a history of design automation from book printing to modern days.

Artisto

The app can process video through neural networks (even streaming video).

Prisma

Neural network-based app that stylizes photos to look like works of famous artists. This one makes a classic portrait (more and more like this) while Google Stadia does the same for games.

Engadget

An editor has nurtured a robot apprentice to write simple news articles about new gadgets. Whew!

Who Is Winning the 3D Printing Battle in Footwear & Why?

A review of high-tech shoe initiatives by Nike, adidas, New Balance, and Under Armour.

Cognitive Movie Trailer

IBM Watson helped 20th Century Fox to create en engaging movie trailer. Looks like they're using this experiment at scale now.

Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold

It helps to refine fashion design. You can sketch changes to a bag or a shoe and see how it could look in a real product.

AI and the future of design: Will machines take your job?

A good article series by Rob Girling from Artefact. He looks at skills that can be automated and tries to predict the future of design as s profession.

Where machines could replace humans — and where they can’t (yet)

McKinsey analyzed 800 jobs to find how easily they can be automated. Lots of interesting insights. Here's a website to check your job. It started to happen with creative jobs in 2023 (see examples: IBM, Axel Springer, Bluefocus Intelligent Communications Group Co.).

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