LAHORE: Pakistan Furniture Council (PFC) Chief Executive Officer Mian Kashif Ashfaq said on Thursday that artificial Intelligence (AI) was transforming the fashion world but the fast growing technology would never be a replacement for designers’ “original creativity”, Talking to a delegation of furniture designers and manufacturers led by Ms Nida Ejaz, he said Fashion innovator Calvin Wong had developed the Interactive Design Assistant for Fashion (AiDA) — the world’s first designer-led AI system. It uses image-recognition technology to speed up the time it takes for a design to go from a first sketch to the catwalk.
He said: “Designers have their fabric prints, patterns, colour tones, initial sketches and they upload the images,” He said “Then AI system can recognise those design elements and come up with more proposals for designers to refine and modify their original design. ”He said AiDA’s particular strength was its ability to present “all the possible combinations” for a designer to consider, something he said was impossible in the current design process. He stressed it was about “facilitating designers inspiration” not “using AI to take over a designers job, to take over their creativity”. “We must treasure the designer’s original creativity,” he concluded.