IBM AI Helps Designers Create Interactive 'Thinking Sculpture' - The New Stack

It seems that everywhere you turn nowadays, you hear about how artificial intelligence is breaking into one area or another that was once thought to be the hallowed preserve of humans. From developing artificial imagination, dreaming, to deep neural reasoning, these technologies are helping machines do what was previously thought impossible, such as composing music, writing novels, besting humans at various games, and navigating and learning about complex systems on their own. There's immense potential for AI to aid and assist humans in all kinds of endeavors -- might AI also help designers and architects build cities and other inhabitable environments of the future? This is something that is quite entirely possible, as this large-scale interactive installation -- created by design studio SOFTlab with the help of IBM's AI platform Watson -- is suggesting. Built for this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the structure was designed, fabricated and assembled using digital and computational tools, which in itself is not that unique.