@mattly There's one part of font design where I'd *love* for some ML to take over: Kerning tables. There is nothing in the world more tedious and uninspiring than kerning a font. I've tried to automate it myself in various ways (including neural nets), without success.
And here is the font design version of the dream of current AI trends: Make an AI take over all the fun parts of designing glyphs and making creative decisions, leaving only tedious soul-crushing kerning to humans.