In the race for ever more powerful ways to take what isn't and make it into an ' is 'can divergence itself be significant ? Should it? Can It ? Here's how.
With the dominance and sheer instant creativity of Ai, diffusion technologies, motion and sound generation + editing, code manipulation & generation, along with molecular and materials modeling ( just to name a few ) and where with all of the above manipulation taking place, and at a pace that is not even close to astounding, it's almost unfathomable, we are in one of the greatest industrial shifts of mankind's history taking place. With this was the idea that constant divergence ( and as a mechanism of creativity ) is enhanced by the use of Ai and even more that Ai itself can evolve and morph faster and more accurately than human creative endeavors. But can it ?
What we see in several studies and more importantly in industry engagement is where ( like in similar studies ) such as Generative Design Reasoning and Students’ Divergent and Convergent Thinking is where " research has pointed to generative design as constraint driven design, leading to a different type of design process creativity compared to traditional design [9]. " and where this becomes even more important is where " experienced designers use criteria beyond performance objectives in their design decision, considering many factors when selecting from the results created by the generative design tool ” and where this leads to the natural conclusion that with the idea that what can't be done can be done ( itself a form of divergent thinking ) the possibility for unexpected breakthroughs can occur.
But what does this mean for the future of Ai not only connected to digital manufacturing but in areas such as new product development and more importantly when generative design systems begin to embrace / are trained on constraint based design, cultural, material selection, machining capabilities, demand, etc,. will Ai be able to ( on behalf of a patron / production financier ) be able to determine what can and will be accepted have the largest possible uptake for purchase ? The numbers are sill in their infancy, but what becomes even more startling is the capability to use other forms of input and as described in Can Abstraction Help Ideation - A Case Study On Biologically Inspired Design where we can see further examples of how industrial use of edge based use cases allow for Ai systems to ( through a multitude of reinforcement learning and even with the emergence of SSN and NeuroMorphic computing architectures ) see into, around and through design and engineering problems given a set of parameters as defined above. With international firms using a multitude of manufacturing and high rate production prediction systems, there is an ever increasing need for alternative to expected divergence models to be created. It is these end to end " creativity " solution systems that give rise to the " breakthroughs " that firms both small and large are looking to in order to create the next markets that have yet to even be cracked or explored.
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