Kevin McCloud reveals how AI will affect the Grand Designs of the future [Video]

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Kevin McCloud has revealed how he believes artificial intelligence will help shape the Grand Designs of the future as the show celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Speaking exclusively to The Independent ahead of Grand Designs Live, McCloud said AI will be an “empowering tool” that could streamline the processes, which the show has famously often documented going awry.

“I think AI is going to really affect architectural design – it’s going to be so much easier to replicate design patterns, to use AI to produce renderings, drawings, prototype models, and solve problems,” he said.

McCloud, an advocate for sustainable design and practices, believes AI could be particularly useful in this area.

“I think the matching of technologies with AI producing thin film, infrared, heating elements, or stick-on solar panels, which use one-thousandths of …

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