HOW SOON WILL ROBOTS MEET & BEAT HUMAN ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS? The following is a transcript of a recent online conversation I had with Chatgpt. I think many architects and engineers might find this to be provocative reading: You said: You have provided me with numerous references concerning artificial intelligence applied to the preparation of design and construction documents for architects and engineers. However, in a lengthy telephone conversation with one of the computer engineers at Autodesk, the leading publisher of architectural and engineering software for architects, he described to me what is known as Generative Design, a subset of Revit, which is Autodesk's prmary application for producing architectural and engineering design and construction documents. As it turns out Generative Design, while it has the ability to produce intelligent preliminary design solutions, still lacks the ability to produce documents at a level of complexity applicable for building const...