Artificial intelligence.

[koraks]

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

Come to think of it, the groom might not have to, either.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

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.

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.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

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.

Having repaired computers in the late 1960's, I am familiar with programming in machine language. Each advancement in programming language as Assembly, Cobol, Fortran, C, Java, etc, just makes it easier. Even with AI, you;re going to have to know how to best prompt the machine. The prompts are just a new form of language.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

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.

I just asked Google Gemini a question, and the answers it gave me showed it accessed all of my Google calendar appointments to adjust its answer. I didn't know I gave authority to Google to do this. How do you shut them down?

 

[Pieter12]

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.

AI does not generate new images from scratch, it takes elements of existing ones and manipulates them. That is why so much of it looks like anime and over-retouched faces. That is what it sees on the internet.

 

[koraks]

it takes elements of existing ones and manipulates them

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.

 

[Pieter12]

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.

It may not literally take the physical elements but it bases the forms from existing images. Oh, maybe that is what photography does, too!

 

[MattKing]

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

The point being, the "makes the rule" actually reverses the meaning. Either "tests" or "challenges" or even "restricts" would be better substitutes.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

It may not literally take the physical elements but it bases the forms from existing images. Oh, maybe that is what photography does, too!

A distinction without a difference. The fact is, it's manipulating bits in the computer. It's not taking a photograph of reality by capturing photons.

 

[Pieter12]

A distinction without a difference. The fact is, it's manipulating bits in the computer. It's not taking a photograph of reality by capturing photons.

Big deal.

 

[4season]

While it may ultimately transform our lives, the current (2026) AI scene feels like a bubble.

https://gizmodo.com/top-chinese-chi...center-buildout-plan-is-half-baked-2000720567