John Maeda

And there's not enough training data to help a vision model think like a designer can see.

Because there's so many dimensions in the latent space of a visual mind still, a creative visual mind, versus looking for license plates and more functional things.

I think that also the number of people who will raise the ceiling will not be a high number, and it won't be that valuable in the mass market.

So I think it'll never be automated.

And that's good news for people who want to stay in the craft of this kind of work.

I feel like

Right now, we're just making it easier for more people to produce average and above average work, which is the lesson of task-based automation.

But those people who are dying for the creativity to last, it'll always remain there.

Only problem, the customer base will be smaller for people who are in that.

It's like, do we know letterpress, letterpress printing?

Oh my gosh, I love it.

But not many people will pay for it.

So it's that market mechanics.

If I may add to that, the thing that I feel over and over is that the reason why someone is willing to pay that much more for that bespoke better thing is they're paying for human trust and accountability.

So for brands and products where people demand that level of like, can I trust this?

That human ability, that human smell can become even more valuable than ever before.

Absolutely.

I was five years incorrect.

That's a hell of a prediction.

But, no, I mean, that's something I learned by working with non-computer-based designers and artists when I led Rhode Island School of Design.