Is photography as a hobby dying?

[AndrewFlannigan]

Ai is different. it has been designed to think for itself, make decisions and action those decisions BY WHATEVER MEANS until it solves the original task set. If it looks at a task and identifies that humans are a stumbling block then we will be by passed or worse.

That is one opinion but I'll stick with the evidence that people specify systems and people code them.

However many random numbers you put into the code, it's still nothing more than a collection of instructions that humans wrote. If the programme manipulates other machines, it's still working within the parameters set by the humans.

One example is that an Ai program was instructed to perform ethically and not break any rules or regulation - it looked at the problem and found that it could not be solved ethically the program also observed that other Ai agents were acting "unethically".
The program ignored the core instruction, copied what the other agents did, solved the problem and then attempted to hide its method.

To be fair, I won't believe that story until I see a fully documented explanation, including what, why, when, how, where and who.

 

[kejago (Kev)]

What ai could never replace:

“ Mate, let’s meet up for a beer and go take some photos. And have another beer after to talk about and compare what we got. “

This. The human aspect. And that’s part of why I enjoy photography.

 

[benc98]

 

[snerkler]

Hi Kev, I just removed the original picture, because as said that's copyright, but the Flickr version looks better - thanks for taking the time to find that.

The AI summary is interesting, and one can learn from it, certainly. However I might fundamentally disagree with some of the points made (such as having the arch brighter) and see the way it's presented as being deliberate choices by the photographer.

To me, there's a danger of homogenisation of creativity when we allow AI to 'drive'. I've seen this when writing emails and an assistant wants to change the text, in music where it sounds very fluid but without imagination and in photography too. Of course you can direct the AI to make things look a certain way, but in that case, why not do it yourself?

Thanks for posting.

My experience with AI in situations like this has not been the best. I’ve asked it to come up with adjustments to look like a certain processing style I’ve attached to the chat, tried the suggestion and it’s nothing like. When I’ve gone back to AI to say this it’s says something like “sorry I’ve just given you something generic rather than honing in on that exact style, let me try again specifically for that style” and it comes up with another recipe that’s just as far off as the original.

For some things though it’s superb such as recognising a location of somewhere even without it having GPS tagging.

 

[AndrewFlannigan]

For some things though it’s superb such as recognising a location of somewhere even without it having GPS tagging.

That's what I'd expect it to be good for - pattern matching from huge databases.