With the recent rise in popularity of text-to-image image generation engines, our friend Pratik Naik had a chat with one of the most popular A.I. chatbots, Open A.I. In his words, the conversation title is "I asked A.I. if humans have anything to fear when it comes to text to image A.I. generators? Here is what it said." It was an interesting conversation, although with a somber conclusion. We are bringing this interview as is and would love to hear if you are concerned about AI or consider it as an opportunity.

There are now two ways of creating digital images with a camera. You can either follow a software-centric computational photography approach. The other way is to stick to traditional hardware-centric optical photography. The former is used with AI to help enhance the final image, the latter relies on the quality of the camera's components (e.g. The two techniques may differ, but they are not at all on a collision course.

Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming an integral part of photo editing software, and Adobe seems to be following the trends. The latest version of Photoshop has been released for desktop and iPad, and it contains an AI-powered feature that lets you tweak your subject's age, gaze, and facial expression in just a few clicks. But there are a few more new AI-based improvements, so let's jump in and see what's new in Photoshop. We have already covered the Sky Replacement feature powered by Adobe Sensei. It separates the sky from the foreground and lets you change the sky in a few clicks, while also tweaking the lighting in the photo so that it matches the new sky.

When shooting in low light, you need to either shoot at long exposures on a tripod or crank up the ISO if you want to shoot handheld. A group of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Intel are bringing the best of both worlds. They've trained AI to process low-light images so they're much cleaner and more usable than grainy photos where ISO is too high. This tech could let you shoot at faster shutter speeds and lower ISO and still get with sharp, clear photos. When captured at short exposure times, the photos would appear almost black.

This week, Google's AlphaGo program beat the world's best Go player, Ke Jie, in 2 straight games in a best of 5 series. Go is considered to be the world's hardest board game, and some AI experts didn't think that a machine would be able to best humans for another decade. In the area of photography, companies like Google have already introduced various aspects of machine learning allowing users to search for photos by keyword without having ever entered keywords. Combined with other features like facial recognition give the user surprisingly accurate and useful results. It's clear that AI has reached a powerful inflection point.

Question: can AI vision systems from Microsoft and Google, which are available for free to anybody, identify NSFW (not safe for work, nudity) images? Can this identification be used to automatically censor images by blacking out or blurring NSFW areas of the image? Method: I spent a few hours creating in some rough code in Microsoft office to find files on my computer and send them to Google Vision and Microsoft Vision so they could be analysed. I spent a few hours over the weekend just knocking some very rough code. Yes, they did reasonably well at (a) identifying images that could need censoring and (b) identifying where on the image things should be blocked out. Follow on question: Why aren't sites like Facebook and Instagram automatically deploying this technology to identify images and allowing users to choose whether they wish to see such images? How do we know how much of our internet is already censored invisibly?

I'm going to get it out of the way right at the start. Having watched the trailer, I want to go and see this movie. This trailer tells us absolutely nothing about what the movie's about, but every cut pulls me in more. Until the guy starts talking at the end of the trailer, I've no idea that the movie is "an AI horror thriller". But these are the kind of trailers I grew up with.