The Last Barrier: Why True Innovation Begins Where AI Ends
Billy, Yang (2025) The Last Barrier: Why True Innovation Begins Where AI Ends. .. (Unpublished)
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This practice-led Stage PhD project investigates the “70% problem” in concept design under generative AI. While AI dramatically accelerates drafting and variation, the final 30%—narrative coherence, structural consistency, functional logic, and production-ready craft—remains dependent on human judgment and making. The research aims to (1) map how value is redistributed between AI and human designers, (2) explain the “knowledge paradox” where experts gain more from AI than novices, (3) establish reusable and teachable workflows with an evaluation rubric, and (4) anticipate how roles and skill structures may shift with near-term agentic and multimodal systems.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9792-3347
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