Artificial intelligence in photography? What happened to the ordinary kind?

Machine learning is, by implication great, because it means we don't have to do any learning ourselves. Deep Learning is the new alternative to us actually doing it, and Neural Networks are an incredibly technical alternative to what our brains do in their sleep. All this, just to save us from thinking. In photography, AI is used for everything from selecting objects to choosing a preset, from working out what to focus on to optimizing the camera settings to suit a scene. It's about making a machine do something so that we don't have to.