Photographers are now obsolete

[Mainecoonmaniac]

As technology "advances" the technical part of focusing and exposing is taken care of leaving the creative and aesthetic side to photographers. Until now.
Google has released a camera that leverages AI that will know when to snap a great video/pic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...il-all-seeing-eye-yet/?utm_term=.3df98139d44f

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Those clips looks creepy.
And at the same page Google inserted the article on the subject we were just watching over Internet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ite-asks-u-s-for-help/?utm_term=.b00244b03c4b
Even more creepy Google.

 

[trondareo]

Computers can play Chess, and Go better than humans. But that doesn't stop us from enjoying the game. Making our own mistakes and learning our own tricks.

 

[slackercrurster]

OP, that stuff only goes so far. Even if it is a good replacement, I think photogs like the experience themselves. Just like they like to drive cars themselves. Time will tell.

 

[trondareo]

I guess AI photography will become useful for the average family and vacation photographer when it can help them take the best pictures possible. But it will still be limited to the time and place a person points the camera. The next step would be to walk around with a 360 rotating camera on your head that takes the best possible images of everything around you, and that asks you to get up at 3 AM to drive to a certain place to get the sunup landscape photograph of your dreams.

 

[Mainecoonmaniac]

It all started with auto exposure. Then auto focus. Now this.
https://lisamilberg.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/animalphotographers052.jpg

 

[Pioneer]

I don't think either the computer or google enjoy it anywhere as much as I do.

 

[trondareo]

I don't think either the computer or google enjoy it anywhere as much as I do.

That just about sums it up! Let's let this thread die in peace.

 

[wiltw]

No computer can get as much satisfaction as I do, when processing a color print and having it come out perfectly color balanced, and then doing it over and over and over, idendically, for a holiday print exchange.

 

[Sirius Glass]

AI is only as good as its limitations. I know, I development enough to see the limitations in everything it was used for.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

When will they have ai that can load sheet film, read my mind, set up a view camera, apply movements, choose an exposure to give details and tones that I like, develop the film, burn & dodge a print, mount it, and clean up the darkroom? Never? That's what I thought.

 

[Sirius Glass]

When will they have ai that can load sheet film, read my mind, set up a view camera, apply movements, choose an exposure to give details and tones that I like, develop the film, burn & dodge a print, mount it, and clean up the darkroom? Never? That's what I thought.

You forgot to include automatically improve the composition.