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SPECIAL SECTION: FOR YOUR HOME

HOME OF AI

A new generation of artificial intelligence is boosting creativity and improving efficiency to make designing and maintaining our homes that little bit easier – and more fun.
BY KIM GILLAN
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We’ ve been comfortable with Siri, Alexa and robot vacuums for a long time now, but over the past year, artificial intelligence( AI) has really stepped up, revolutionising the way we perform mundane tasks to free up spare time. Here’ s how you can team with AI to make your home look and function better.

Update your interiors
Whether you’ re embarking on a large-scale renovation or just want to freshen up your fixtures, you can now get a comprehensive visual of your own rooms for a fraction of
the price of hiring a professional interior designer. Services like homedesigns. ai allow you to import a photo of the room in question and show you how it would look as Scandinavian, Minimalist or Christmas, to provide useful thought starters for designing your dream space.
In the US, the AI potential for home freshening is another step ahead, with paint brand Lick allowing customers to turn their Pinterest boards into a shoppable paint palette, before sending them peel-and-stick paint samples to try-before-they-buy. Let’ s hope our Australian paint counterparts follow suit soon.
Garden planning
Wondering which trees to plant where? Guide ChatGPT with clever prompts and it will give you a list of plant species to consider planting in your specific environment.“ You can find just about anything you’ re looking for better than Google,” says productivity specialist Donna McGeorge, author of The ChatGPT Revolution: How to Simplify Your Work and Life Admin with AI.“ The power [ of AI ] is in the way you craft your prompts – it’ s got to be,‘ Be this and help me do that.’”
So when this writer asked the AI app to be a landscape gardener and provide >
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