Computational photography uses AI a lot (next to parametric approaches), and without these algorithms, smartphone cameras would be quite shitty. People do care about that. AI isn't just LLM chatbots.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/14/24220178/halide-camera-ap...
I'm having a horrifying realization that all of my pictures are "fake" in the sense that they don't match what I saw/experienced. Maybe it's time to get back into Polaroids.
I'd caution that judicious/proper post-processing is actually needed if you want that result, because of the differences between the sensors.
Your human experience comes from many small pictures taken by a set of lenses panning across multiple points in a scene with constantly adjusting exposure times and focal lengths, all biologically composited into what feels like a single moment.
Trying to fully replicate that with a single artificial picture is going to be deficient in certain ways.
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Separately, a pet peeve of mine: Too many people have been subtly brainwashed into conflating the "like I was really there" with " like a Hollywood film camera was really there." Then the next thing you know your medieval fantasy game has lens flares in it for no good reason.
But knowing that the phone does a lot of software tweaking to get a picture to look similar to how good a full camera is made me want to switch. I think this was around the time that article about Samsung basically replacing a photo of the moon.
But those pics will be probably further from perceived reality than those enhanced by software (lets not get retarded here and don't brand every data processing as 'AI'). Distortions not only of barrel type, waning brightness towards edges, moire, heavy vignetting, tons of noise, over/underexposition, maybe some dead pixels... thats not how I see my days go by.
If you actually peak under the hood they just pass through weighted selectors, no different than a switch statement
Nah.
Smartphone cameras stopped being shitty a while ago, long before AI and computational photography hacks.
What you mean to say is they without AI, you'd know sooner that the smartphone maker put a cheap, shitty camera in your "premium" phone.
>People do care about that. AI isn't just LLM chatbots.
Yeah, it's also fake image generation featuring humans with a funny number of fingers.
What AI isn't is a camera.