人工智能會否取代設計師？ Will AI replace designers?

〔粵〕人工智能工具日新月異，圖像與文字生成技術已成基本配置，而圖像處理、風格模仿等功能的效率與品質亦日趨成熟。數星期前，設計軟件龍頭公司 Adobe 更發佈和示範了圖文排版相關的生成式技術。設計師是否正面臨被人工智能取代的危機？設計的本質能否被人工智能完全理解並應用？

[Cantonese] Generative AI tools are flooding the market, which can in fact generate rather decent pictures, imitating existing visual styles. Several weeks ago, Adobe announced generative AI-based page layout tools. Are designers at risk for being replaced by AI? Can the essence of design be fully understood and utilised by AI?

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‘Design is to design a design to produce a design.’ – John Heskett

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‘No, Watson, this wasn’t done by accident, but by design.’ — Sherlock Holmes

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‘Why, at a time when communication systems of all kinds are increasing in scope and complexity, we should feel bound by any narrow definition of the scope of graphic design, I don’t know. But we still are.’

‘Only two things could stop the graphic designer from growing up with the rest of the technological world: a failure to familiarise himself with the new areas of knowledge springing up alongside his own; and an inability to free himself from the strait-jacket of his preconceptions about the kind of tasks with which he expects to be confronted.’

– Ken Garland,

Graphics handbook, 1966