Manas Bhatia has a bold imaginativeness of the aboriginal -- 1 wherever residential skyscrapers covered successful trees, plants and algae enactment arsenic "air purification towers."

In a bid of elaborate images, the New Delhi-based designer and computational decorator has brought the thought to life. His imagined buildings are depicted rising precocious supra a futuristic metropolis, their curved forms inspired by shapes found successful nature.

But the pictures were not wholly of his ain imagination.

For his conceptual project, "AI x Future Cities," Bhatia turned to an artificial quality imaging tool, Midjourney, that generates elaborate pictures based connected written prompts. Using a bid of substance descriptions -- featuring phrases similar "futuristic towers," "utopian technology," "symbiotic," and "bioluminescent material" -- Midjourney yielded a bid of integer images that Bhatia further tweaked by honing the prompts.

Bhatia said it tin instrumentality up to 20 minutes to marque each of the surreal artworks. He refined his descriptions astir 100 times per project, editing and adding to the substance until helium achieved the desired results earlier cleaning up the images utilizing Photoshop.

"The trial-and-error portion is the astir fun," the designer said implicit the phone. "We usage AI to make images and, successful the process, the AI trains itself and improves implicit time."

In different project, titled "Symbiotic Architecture," Bhatia imagined a aboriginal successful which buildings are made from surviving materials. Using prompts similar "giant" and "hollowed," helium produced images of what helium called a "utopian future" successful which apartments are formed wrong redwood-sized trees.

He says it was inspired by Hyperion, a 380-foot-tall redwood successful California thought to beryllium the world's tallest surviving tree. But helium besides drew connected his ain day-to-day enactment astatine Indian architecture steadfast Ant Studio, whose projects see retrofitting buildings with caller facades to promote earthy ventilation and trim vigor consumption.

"The inspiration (was the idea) of a building's 'skin' being integrated and inspired by nature, and however evaporative cooling and transpiration takes spot truthful that (towers can) modulate their ain somesthesia passim the day," Bhatia said adding: "If we could make gathering materials to beryllium organic, and to unrecorded and grow, the gathering could ventilate itself done these earthy processes."

The caller popularity of AI imaging tools similar OpenAI's DALL-E 2 and Google Research's Imagen person raised caller questions astir creativity and creator integrity.

Last month, Colorado crippled decorator Jason M. Allen controversially won $300 astatine an art competition with a futuristic, Renaissance-style representation created utilizing Midjourney. While immoderate societal media users and artists expressed their disapproval of Allen's methods, the decorator said his submission -- which took him implicit 80 hours to make -- qualified arsenic a enactment of integer art.

For Bhatia, AI is conscionable different tool. "Art is wholly unfastened to interpretation," helium said. "And an creator tin usage immoderate benignant of instrumentality determination is to make art. Anyone tin usage AI, but they won't beryllium capable to execute arsenic bully a effect arsenic a originative person."

By producing thing beyond users' imaginations, it tin spark caller ideas and enrich the plan process, the designer added. He adjacent envisages a aboriginal wherever AI tin make 3D designs and is integrated into the bundle that architects usage to exemplary their creations.

"It has tremendous potential," helium said. "At our studio, we tried utilizing AI to make temper committee images for a lawsuit presentation, and that went precise well... In the adjacent future, architects and designers combined with AI would beryllium thing to anticipation for."