The 21st Century Architect
Digitally Augmented, but very Human
On June 7th, 2023, I gave the opening keynote at the AIA 2023 National Conference in San Francisco as part of the TAP Symposium (Technology in Architectural Practice). While I do not have a recording of the talk, I noted to all attendees that I would publish the bibliography from the talk. Here you go!
Doug Engelbart from his piece "Augmented Human Intellect: A Collective Framework" https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/138
Richard Susskind & Daniel Susskind from their book "The Future of the Professions". Here is a link to the updated edition: https://bookshop.org/books/the-future-of-the-professions-how-technology-will-transform-the-work-of-human-experts-updated-edition/9780198841890
Andrew McAfee & Erik Brynjolfsson's book "Machine, Platform, Crowd" https://bookshop.org/books/machine-platform-crowd-harnessing-our-digital-future/9780393356069
Check out content from the previous Smargeometry Workshops and Conference here: www.smartgeometry.org
Jesse Watson, "The Hard Thing about Software Development" https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hard-thing-software-development-jesse-watson
Our tools of choice for environmental performance analysis: https://www.ladybug.tools/ and https://www.pollination.cloud/
Gordon Brander "Composability with other tools" https://subconscious.substack.com/p/composability-with-other-tools
Casey Reas "Thoughts on Software for the Visual Arts" https://medium.com/processing-foundation/thoughts-on-software-a8a82c95e1ad
Forbes article about the Goldman Sachs AI report: "Global Economics Analyst - The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth" https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/03/31/goldman-sachs-predicts-300-million-jobs-will-be-lost-or-degraded-by-artificial-intelligence/?sh=773eeef4782b
Noam Chomsky "The False Promise of ChatGPT" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Dan McQuillan "We Come to Bury ChatGPT, Not to Praise It" https://www.danmcquillan.org/chatgpt.html
Kate Wagner "No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture" https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ai-architecture-midjourney-dall-e/
A wealth of material on the extractive nature of AI by Kate Crawford in "Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence" https://bookshop.org/p/books/atlas-of-ai-power-politics-and-the-planetary-costs-of-artificial-intelligence-kate-crawford/17465404?ean=9780300264630
If you are looking for a fantastic overview of the social issues, bias, and more, that are associated with LLMs, check out this interview with Emily Bender "You Are Not a Parrot" https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
And if you want to go to one of the big original sources for this topic, check out the research paper "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 and part of the fallout here: https://www.wired.com/story/behind-paper-led-google-researchers-firing/
Rumman Chowdhury and others in the NY Times "8 Big Questions About AI" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/06/01/opinion/ai-technology-future.html?searchResultPosition=1
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi from his book "Creativity" https://bookshop.org/books/creativity-the-psychology-of-discovery-and-invention-9798200608218/9780062283252
Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen's piece "How can we develop transformative tools for thought?" https://numinous.productions/ttft/