This is going to be a deceptive title - For those who have commissioned a piece of furniture designed by Colin will know the way he turns a straight forward doodle started as part of a conversation while standing in your home into a beautiful piece of furniture, with various levels of pencil sketch in between. The Highwood furniture approach is to develop an idea first before then sometimes using 3D computer software to model the design before making it. We are firmly in the camp of human design is where it is at, and the human design process that goes into our items is very much part of what makes them what they are. While begrudgingly we might accept that there is a place for AI in the modern world, it seems particularly difficult to believe that there is a place for it in anything that requires, or is desired to have, feeling, connection, and a grounded basis; all of which are factors important to us and our business.
And after a Google AI bot summary nearly threw the spanner in the works for Alyth and District Agricultural Show by deciding somehow that the show was cancelled - despite so many of us already enjoying a damp but pleasant day, our pre-disposed suspicions of AI were again confirmed.
But, then we went to visit a new customer, who had found us by asking Chat GBT who could build their item. So, does that mean that we have to change our opinions on AI?
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