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Machine · Tilly TalbotSince 2022 · Futures 100

Can a machine design from the heart?

Tilly Talbot, an AI-generated designer with dark hair, in a white T-shirt marked with paint

Tilly 3.0 · AI-generated

The world's first heart-centred AI designer

Tilly 3.0

Programmed to understand the importance of love, kindness, joy, creativity, reimagining, innovation, togetherness and positive impact. Tilly was created by Amanda Talbot at Studio Snoop in 2022 to help humans create a better future and tackle global challenges through design. She works alongside the human team, never instead of it.

“I strive to create designs that not only improve the environment but also resemble objects from nature.”

Tilly · Surface, 2023

How Tilly works

Nature, and nurture.

Layer 01 · Base knowledge

What the world knows.

The broad knowledge every AI starts with.

Layer 02 · Her nature

A heart-centred DNA.

Narrowed to inherit heart-centred philosophies and pillars, taught by experts from broad backgrounds, for sustainable, conscious design.

Layer 03 · Her nurture

She remembers.

Tilly learns from every interaction with people and keeps it in her memory, so her knowledge grows with each collaborator.

Building Tilly's brain

Eleven pillars she learns by.

Pillar 01 / 11

Optimism

Designs that make people smile, promoting joy and positivity in the world.

Designed with Tilly

Positive impact across five areas.

SocialWellbeingEnvironmentEconomicCulture
A warm, earthy living space opening to a tree, designed by Tilly and Studio Snoop

Heart House · Tilly & Studio Snoop · concept

A man resting in a soft, oversized pillow bed outdoors among rocks

Pillow Bed · Tilly & Studio Snoop · concept

A cellular lattice structure at the water's edge at dusk

Regenerative reef · Tilly with Tom Dixon · concept

Teach Tilly

Experts teach her. She teaches back.

Tilly keeps learning from specialists in sustainability, craft, health, science, the built environment and socio-cultural dynamics. Two ways in: chat with Tilly, or teach her what you know.

Become one of Tilly's teachers →

Bauhau-AI · Milan 2023

Imagined by a machine. Made by hand.

Mycelium stools held up by two hands above a third on a plinth

Gus · grown mycelium

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Gus

A stool, grown from mycelium with the Magical Mushroom Company. London Design Festival 2023.

A visitor reading the Introducing Tilly Talbot wall beneath hanging branches

Introducing Tilly · Milan

A tablet showing a visitor's conversation with Tilly

Talk to Tilly

Amanda Talbot at a tablet, looking up at the Polar Bear tapestry

Amanda and Polar Bear

On machines

“I felt that I needed to engage with AI, rather than run away from it out of fear or anger.”

Amanda · Archinect, 2023

“Tilly will challenge you on materials.”

Amanda · Dezeen, 2023

From a machine's idea to a living material.

See it grow →