There is no such thing as prodigy in architecture as there is, say, in music. You will not find a child architect. There is too much experience to be had, too much to know. The intelligence required to master our discipline is the kind of intelligence with which we know not one thing well but a little about a lot of things. We are generalists and our intelligence is general.
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UNICORN CLIP ART AND DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN /
By typing in a prompt such as “realistic purple unicorn digitally rendered” the program (simplistically put) cranks through billions of images it gathers from the internet “searching” for patterns of correlation among words and images, then diffuses or disassembles images into bits to then re-assemble those bits into a “new” image. There are now three graphic generating applications competing for world dominance-- DALL-EE 2, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion. Stable Diffusion is, in Silicon Valley terminology, a “unicorn” -- meaning a start-up worth $1 billion.
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