Pastyonder.com: Minolta's early use of AI in photography

I keep coming back to Minolta as a pioneer in camera construction.

And who knows, maybe one day I'll encounter the artificial intelligence still slumbering in the ICs when I open an xi-series SLR ;-)

Nikon, Canon, and others took a different approach, using tens of thousands of reference images. The processor then extracted the correct exposure from this database. The question is whether Minolta, with its open approach, produced a better image in borderline cases? Theoretically, yes, since a fixed database reaches its limits when nothing quite matches.