The rise of AI technology has brought about many changes in various industries, and photography is no exception. With AI photography, the line between what is real and what is fake has become increasingly blurred. This has sparked a debate on the significance of authenticity in photography and the impact that AI technology has on the art form. Artificial intelligence is being used to enhance photos, manipulate images, and even create entirely new images from scratch. This technology can produce highly realistic images, making it difficult to distinguish between what was captured in a camera and what was created in a computer. While AI photography has the potential to revolutionize the industry and open up new possibilities for artists, it also raises questions about the ethics of using AI in photography.

In announcing the iPhones 11 Pro, Phil Schiller tipped us off to a new feature that'll come to the flagship smartphones in the next year. Deep Fusion is a system which Schiller describes as "computational photography mad science," which is likely to be the company's answer, more or less, to Google's Night Sight. As Schiller explained, when you're about to take an image with the new iPhone 11 Pro, the camera will snap 8 images before you press the shutter. When you do, it'll then take one long exposure, and then stitch a new image together, "pixel-by-pixel" to create one with lots of detail and very little noise. It's not specifically designed for shooting in the dark, but it's clear that Apple is parking its tanks on Google's lawn. Night Sight has been one of the strengths of the last few Pixel phones, using machine learning to create well-lit images in dark environments.

When we point our smartphone camera, tap on the screen and take a picture, it's easy to forget, photography hasn't always been as simple as it is today – but that's the illusion of AI – what appears simple is in fact, incredibly complex. Phones like the Honor View10 are powered by the Kirin 970 processor, with AI at its heart. It sees through the dual lenses around the back, identifies what it's looking at using its Neural Processing Unit and captures your memories in stunningly high-resolution. But how did we arrive at the age of AI photography and what will smartphone photography look like in the future? As little as 20 years ago, digital cameras were anything but the norm – and the idea of a camera on your smartphone?