Companies keep pushing AI as something positive, in increasingly stupid ways.
From the SAAB JAS-39 Gripen E fighter supposedly having AI, to the Sony A7R VI having AI auto focus, and other weird applications.
As a resonably logical person who works in IT, I can see the Gripen E having the space, energy and general computing resources to run a local AI model, but the Sony A7R VI?
I am mashing X hard on that one!
How much of AI bullshit is just machine learning and just older tech we have had for a while under different names?
Don’t get me wrong, I hate AI with a passion, I am not trying to excuse it’s use, I am trying to figure out what devices use AI branding as a marketing gimmick while using less bad crap, and what devices actually could use AI.
As an IT guy and a hobby photographer I feel like AI is far too much A while inhibiting the I of the user.
I mean if it’s actually bringing a tangible benefit I don’t see a problem with ai being used in autofocus, it’s actually one of the useful things it’s supposed to be alright at. That being said it’s probably not efficient to run an actual neural network on a camera.
What “intelligence” is needed for auto-focus? It’s literally just a data processing function. There’s is no “AI”.
Recognising objects and what to focus on. But most autofocus is more than good enough and you can set zone focus to catch most things with a recent enough (like the last 10 years) camera. There’s uses for decent subject tracking but from all I’ve seen the improvements that ai adds are tiny at this point, it’s more for things like sports or dancing or whatever where facial features will be obscured and you want it to predict where they’ll be without actually seeing it.