155 The Aesthetic vs Technical Perfection
Chris and Ade explore the ways new technology can help you make fantastic photos.
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Show Notes
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What happens when AI starts to learn and interpret beauty? And how do you train it? From a lecture by EyeEm cofounder and CTO Ramzi Rizk, we discuss the consequences of working with AI systems trained to make judgements about beauty, to assign complex meanings as keywords and to surface image sets based on complex criteria. Is it all over for photographers making aesthetic decisions? And just what exactly is Visual Salience?
Picks of the week: Anticipation of getting a new camera - that point between ordering and receiving! Altered thrift store paintings, [Van Gogh museum eye tracking project](https://youtu.be/0_KaItdTkEM ).