I've seen bits and pieces of AI, mostly pertaining to photography and I gather that any scene/image can be far more manipulated than any existing editing program can do, but does AI stop here? Seems to be much broader than I had originally thought.
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What is "AI"??
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It most certainly doesn't stop with things like easier sky replacements. Look at for example these images generated with Midjourney from scratch:
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These images are generated by giving a text description of what you want, not by taking a photo and modifying it.
Personally I see this kind of generative imagery and photography as complementing each other.
Jonsi
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It's not that it's editing more than editing programs can... it's that it's huge collection of information is making guesses at the preferred ways to edit an image, based on the images it's previously been given.
And doing it instantly.
So...while it can't do more than you...it can do it faster.
JohnSil
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In phtography i've seen images so stunning that they could never be replicated in the real world, it's amazing what AI can do. I don't know how many key strokes and imput it takes but it's pretty amazing.
BUT all you gotta do is read up on the Microsoft Chat Bot and AI gets scary real QUICK!!!
John
yes I've since seen some vids on AI "human" robots. Scary stuff indeed, I can see this kind of thing eventually evolving into the demise of civilization as we know it!
JohnSil
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Where have you been? The new systems are smarter and more eloquent than the average person, and know everything and in every language all at the same time. The current training makes it so they don't continuously learn, but that is being addressed with a graph as in Microsoft co-pilot, and specific training that is more about context and new information (ie. the way the AI thinks is not changing). This is just the tip or the left side of a section of the iceberg. These is like the first homo sapiens, with us the chimps and gorilas thinking it these new entities will serve us well.
sybersitizen
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No, it doesn't stop there. Completely artificial images can be produced. Example:
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Computers do what they are programmed to, I don't understand why the sudden AI craze is different. Yes, computers are much more powerful now and they can be programmed to do a lot more.
Having said that, the results of AI algorithms are still very much subpar as far as I'm concerned.
Having said that, the results of AI algorithms are still very much subpar as far as I'm concerned.
As an AI language model, I can provide an unbiased perspective on the topic.
It is true that computers do what they are programmed to do. However, with the advancements in machine learning, particularly in deep learning algorithms, computers can learn from data and improve their performance over time. This is what sets AI apart from traditional programming. Instead of explicitly programming every rule and decision into the computer, we can now train it on large datasets to learn patterns and make predictions on its own. This ability to learn and adapt to new situations is what makes AI so powerful.
Regarding the subpar results of AI algorithms, it is important to note that AI is still in its early stages and there is always room for improvement. While there have been some notable successes, such as self-driving cars, natural language processing, and image recognition, there are still many challenges to overcome. However, the progress made in the field of AI in recent years has been remarkable, and we can expect even greater advancements in the future.
In summary, while computers do what they are programmed to do, AI is different in that it can learn and adapt to new situations, which makes it a powerful tool for solving complex problems. The results of AI algorithms may not always be perfect, but the potential for improvement and innovation is vast.
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AstigmaticOwl
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Bots like ChatGPT are showy, but stuff is creeping into photography that might be more important. For example, just this week we see a Sony vlogging camera that can shift focus from a face to an object held near the face, and there is a report that the Canon R3 has an update coming that will "remember" designated faces and prioritize them. I can see that later being useful to wedding and event photographers.
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^^^^^^^^^^If this doesn't give anyone shivers about what AI is capable of, I don't know what to say. This has the capability of putting an awful lot of folks out of work.As an AI language model, I can provide an unbiased perspective on the topic.
It is true that computers do what they are programmed to do. However, with the advancements in machine learning, particularly in deep learning algorithms, computers can learn from data and improve their performance over time. This is what sets AI apart from traditional programming. Instead of explicitly programming every rule and decision into the computer, we can now train it on large datasets to learn patterns and make predictions on its own. This ability to learn and adapt to new situations is what makes AI so powerful.
Regarding the subpar results of AI algorithms, it is important to note that AI is still in its early stages and there is always room for improvement. While there have been some notable successes, such as self-driving cars, natural language processing, and image recognition, there are still many challenges to overcome. However, the progress made in the field of AI in recent years has been remarkable, and we can expect even greater advancements in the future.
In summary, while computers do what they are programmed to do, AI is different in that it can learn and adapt to new situations, which makes it a powerful tool for solving complex problems. The results of AI algorithms may not always be perfect, but the potential for improvement and innovation is vast.
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Mark S Abeln
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AI has been around since the late 1950s.
An early application of AI to digital photography—called “machine vision” back in the old days—is automatic white balance. That was considered a difficult problem, and attempted solutions involved early neural networks. Edwin Land, of Polaroid fame, was an enthusiastic researcher in this field, and had the resources of a major industrial laboratory to back him up.
Land also worked on early versions of tone mapping, to make visually realistic representations of shadows and highlights in otherwise low dynamic range media. This too was considered AI and involved crude neural networks as well.
An early application of AI to digital photography—called “machine vision” back in the old days—is automatic white balance. That was considered a difficult problem, and attempted solutions involved early neural networks. Edwin Land, of Polaroid fame, was an enthusiastic researcher in this field, and had the resources of a major industrial laboratory to back him up.
Land also worked on early versions of tone mapping, to make visually realistic representations of shadows and highlights in otherwise low dynamic range media. This too was considered AI and involved crude neural networks as well.
Guy Parsons
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Old hat stuff in the compact world, my 2018 vintage Sony RX100M6 has that feature and possibly earlier Casios had it (unsure), not a feature that I've ever experimented with.
JohnSil
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Yes, I've read that the computers take as many as a hundred faces or as many as its given and takes little pieces of each face to create a completely new face which looks completely real, because it is!
BUT it takes the government to give it an identity complete with a history!!!
John
atom14
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Hmm...! - An expression of pain or surprise in some languages, like:
[¡]A[y/i], caramba!
It may well become the dominant expression in English as we get to increasingly bemoan the deleterious effects of AI, like:
Ai-ai-ai...!!!
That's all AI have to offer at this juncture
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[¡]A[y/i], caramba!
It may well become the dominant expression in English as we get to increasingly bemoan the deleterious effects of AI, like:
Ai-ai-ai...!!!
That's all AI have to offer at this juncture
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m14.
JohnSil
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I don't think it's important what your camera had and when, what's important is that, that same technology today is 1000 times more advanced then it was 5 years ago. Just the facial/eye recognition in a $2000 camera today is incredibly more powerful than it was a few years ago.Old hat stuff in the compact world, my 2018 vintage Sony RX100M6 has that feature and possibly earlier Casios had it (unsure), not a feature that I've ever experimented with.
Some of the photos being created right now with AI can't be duplicated by a photographer today. And if it could it would take so much money and time that just consider it not doable.
I'm guessing the tech already exist to make a feature film with virtual actors. At present it's still possibly cheaper to use humans but in the near future it won't be.
Imagine a car being designed by AI. It wont need any human input as the computers will already know what trends it needs to design and it will never need to be wind tunneled or crash tested because all those variables can also be predicted.
Designing people is probably easier and cheaper than mining bitcoin!!!
John
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