Toward AI Assistants That Let Designers Design
This addresses the challenge of creating AI assistants that enhance rather than replace human creativity in design, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing ideas of cooperative AI.
The paper tackles the problem of AI systems that disrupt rather than support designers by proposing a framework for AI-assisted design, which uses generative user models to infer designers' goals and help them cooperatively.
AI for supporting designers needs to be rethought. It should aim to cooperate, not automate, by supporting and leveraging the creativity and problem-solving of designers. The challenge for such AI is how to infer designers' goals and then help them without being needlessly disruptive. We present AI-assisted design: a framework for creating such AI, built around generative user models which enable reasoning about designers' goals, reasoning, and capabilities.