Artificial intelligence.

Alan Edward Klein said:

The photographer won't even have to go to the affair.

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Pieter12 said:

That is not what it is limited to. It is used, to great benefit, to enhance or modify existing images. Nothing fake beyond what had been traditionally been done by retouching--only better.

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Sean said:

This would have sounded insane a year ago, now it is actually not so far fetched:

"Coding dies this year. Not evolves. Dies. By December, AI won’t need programming languages. It generates machine code directly. Binary optimized beyond anything human logic could produce. No translation. No compilation. Just pure execution."

An example would be you no longer code apps, you tell the ai what you want and it renders it. Interaction within the inner and outer working of the app are seen and processed by the ai which then renders any required output. No code.

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wiltw said:

We think of the negative impacts of AI, but there are also the positive results. I only recently learned about two uses of AI that are beneifiting mankind

• AI analyzes chemical compounds and suggest (much more quickly) similar compounds that should be investigated to resolve medical issues, faster than human scientists can come up with potential solutions.
• AI analyzes existing chemical compounds with one medical use, and suggests alternate medical uses

I am well aware of some of the criminal uses of AI, and my wife has a good friend who was victimized by what AI can do. losing thousands of dollars to fraud made possible by AI. But there are benefits from AI, too.

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Alan Edward Klein said:

I agree with you that AI for edits is OK. But AI to create new images isn't a photograph but rather a computer-generated graphic that looks like a photo.

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Pieter12 said:

it takes elements of existing ones and manipulates them

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koraks said:

Not as such, though. It generates images from noise, compares them to mathematical abstractions of images it has been fed with, and adjusts the noise generation based on the similarity. This process is moderated by the tokens given to it in the form of a prompt. Very simplistically put. But it's not the same as 'taking elements from'; it's not like a collage. I think that's an important difference, although many people won't care or even realize.

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Alan Edward Klein said:

I used "makes the rule" instead of "proves the rule" to avoid being too dogmatic.

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