Workers in many areas of practical interest have come to rely daily on mature AI applications. Using AI tools, doctors diagnose diseases, technicians maintain complicated equipment, lenders qualify borrowers, and plant managers schedule and control manufacturing facilities. One domain that has not seen much practical support from AI is conceptual design. We think of design as more "creative" than other intellectual tasks, and that very label suggests, that we have fewer explicit models for what happens in design, and thus a weaker base on which to build applications. N's book brings together a number of AI techniques, some with original twists, into a cogent and lucid model for how machines can help with some types of design.
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