Mike Haley is a Senior Director of Machine Intelligence at Autodesk. Mike spoke with MIT Tech Review a few weeks ago to provide background on generative design and how artificial intelligence is being used to automate parts of the design process. As a result, a quote from Mike was included in an article about DARPA’s new project to rethink the way complex components are designed by combining recent advances in machine learning with fundamental tenets of math and engineering.

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Closing out the article penned by Tech Review’s AI editor:

"Mike Haley, Autodesk’s senior director of machine intelligence, says AI could expand design beyond boundaries imposed by the bias and groupthink that humans can succumb to. “We are going to think beyond our brains and come up with ideas that we would have never come up with before,” Haley says. 'It’s like having the world’s most wonderful mentor.'”

Autodesk is constanty on teh forefront of technologies that will help improve and integrate the process of designing and making.

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