When the initial iPhone came out with a camera that took rather decent photos I was so excited about it. To have a camera in your pocket whenever you needed one was now possible. Then the social networks became visual feeds and the phones started focusing more and more on the cameras to make them shoot printable photos and 4K video. Many have said the iPhone was a camera that you could make a call with. But, what if they removed the camera from the mobile phone? According to The Verge, the end-game of cameras is having no camera at all.
This means that there'll be no sensor needed for you to take a shot. You can simply point the phone somewhere, and based on your location, the gyroscope's calculation of direction, height, angle, the time of day, and what the weather forecast looked like at the time of the photo being taken, Google will be able to simulate what the scene looked like. And, if you wanted to take a photo of people, selfies will be inserted into the picture too.
Now when I discussed this with other photographers they said it sounds very dystopian, almost like the end of the world. I saw their point, but it can also be great for real photographers, you know, the guys with the cameras who get commissioned by clients to shoot for them.
I like technology, but I believe it should empower the creators. It shouldn't take away what it means to be human. Our search for visual narrative and telling stories is a human trait that'll remain or even become more important in future. And not everyone dreams of becoming a photographer. So the ones who do will never stop going out with a real camera and the industry that make the gear won't stop because of it.
[via The Verge]
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AI improves itself exponentially and right now it's far less intelligent than a rat. It will take 5, 20, maybe 100 years until we have something which can calculate a semi-accurate image based gyroscope data etc. However, as soon as we have reached that point, we could have an AI which is better at "photography" than the entire human race combined only a few hours later.
I hear you, and you're most likely right. I do think it'll be a bit sooner than 100 years, especially now that AI is hyped up as it is. I hope I can remain a photographer as long as I can, and I think there'll always be something humane about photography and way of seeing that can't be done with AI. Thanks for the comment.
This won't ever replace an actual camera, there are too many variables.
And how exactly do you have selfie to insert without a camera?
Nah! Can't happen. I've taken a few photos of vanity license plates. One was SUPRSZME on a Mini Cooper while I was stopped at a traffic light; was his other car a Hummer? Another occasion, I saw 3.14159 on a truck; I imagine that he was a trig teacher. I photographed both with smart phones. Another time, I captured DAISYDK (Daisy Duke) and 8675309 (Jenny) with my SLR. Google can't determine the cars and traffic unless they are collaborating with the NSA.
It's all true. Apparently the Large Hadron Collider has opened a portal to a time displacement rift that the phone software can access and send a bot back to grab the shot.
Low income earners are upset that these bots might be stealing jobs, but Apple has promised that they're only offering them 'exposure'.