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Business marketing made simple using AI
October 1st, 2024
Image: Dreamstime.com/©Moawia Husnain Full disclosure, I’m not really a marketing guy. When I started AP Consulting more than two years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. And as much as I would like to say I know everything now, I don’t. And that’s OK. The internet is the most extensive repository of […]
AI creates customized lingerie, recommends products
October 1st, 2024
Customers input a few words into the “AM by You” program by Adore Me to create artificial intelligence-generated fabric prints for custom bra and panty sets. It’s among Victoria Secret’s artificial intelligence-related modernization efforts. Image: Adore Me Customers of direct-to-consumer lingerie business Adore Me are designing their own fabric prints for bralette and panty sets, […]
Artificial intelligence in textile patterns and sizing
September 1st, 2024
Seonyoung Youn, Ph.D., speaking at Advanced Textiles Expo in 2023 as a doctoral student about her research into using artificial intelligence to create digital patterns that better represent real-world fabric draping behavior. Image: © Mark Skalny Photography/Jacob Tyler Dunn A lot of uncertainty surrounds artificial intelligence (AI). What are its limitations? How many human jobs will […]
AI saves businesses time, but it needs to learn physics
March 1st, 2024
In October 2023, Rick Collins, ATA’s IT director, conducted a series of experiments with Midjourney to explore its potential. Using GPT-4, he created descriptions to feed to Midjourney, instructing the latter to generate images of the ideal event tent for hosting 200 attendees Although computers have been working with large amounts of data since their […]
Digital manufacturing transforms flat knitting
October 16th, 2018
Connie Huffa, president of Fabdesigns Inc., doesn’t see the 4.0 Industrial Revolution as a factor that hurts jobs. Rather, she explains, “Jobs are changing but not being eliminated.” Huffa, a textile engineer, discussed the how the textile industry, like other manufacturing businesses, is experiencing the fourth Industrial Revolution. Her presentation was part of the IFAI’s […]