From the course: Generative Design Foundations
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How did you get here?
- To most designers, generative design is still a new idea, but some of the technologies behind generative design have actually been around for decades. Let's take a quick look at the origins of some of these technologies, and how they got us to where we are today. Writing in 1950, Alan Turing first put forward the idea of artificial intelligence, and wondered whether it would one day be possible to make a machine that thinks for itself. In 1958, Frank Rosenblatt invented the Perceptron, which is the basis of the neural networks that power most machine learning solutions today. In 1960, John Holland introduced the genetic algorithm, which is still the most common optimization algorithm used for generative design. Now given how long these ideas have been around, you may wonder why it took so long for them to make an impact on the way we design. In fact, only recent advances have put these tools in the hands of designers and…
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