Is Generative Design Machine Learning?

Although many people are using machine learning as an industry buzzword, it is important to differentiate between the terms generative design and machine learning.

Essentially, the answer is no, generative design is not machine learning. While machine learning is used to analyze and predict, generative design creates and generates.

Machine Learning

Step 1: Data. Step 2: Computer finds patterns in data. Step 3: Computer predicts, creates rules, forms relations, etc.

Generative Design

Step 1: Inputs, variables, relations between variables, optimization criteria. Step 2: Computer tries multiple design configurations. Step 3: Computer presents options that optimize certain criteria.

The diagram above shows how these terms differ in their processes. You can think of machine learning as a pattern finder and generative design as a creator.

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