Jennifer Sheahan: How to use generative AI in home design

Almost every industry is being impacted by the evolution of generative AI and home and interior design is no different

GenAI can help designers and homeowners to expand their horizons and work more efficiently, says Jennifer Sheahan. File picture

Hands up who’s used Chat GPT? If you haven’t or are not familiar with generative AI, it is a type of artificial intelligence that takes in information, is able to spot patterns and connections within that information, and is then able to generate content based on what it has learned. 

It does not actually know what it is generating; instead, it is producing its best prediction of the right answer based on the information it has learned from. GenAI can produce text, images, audio, graphs, videos — almost anything we can think of in terms of media content.