Given its potential impact on the creative industry, it’s no surprise that there is a lot of talk around the subject of Artificial Intelligence. What has taken many people by surprise, myself included, is the speed with which AI has hit the mainstream; only three or four years ago, even the term ‘AI’ didn’t mean much to me beyond a sci-fi cliché, and the occasional passive reference in the specifications of photo-editing software.
And yes, so-called ‘intelligent’ features have been present in applications like Adobe Photoshop for a while, but at nowhere near the level of sophistication we’re seeing today. Compared to apps like Firefly and ChatGPT, they’re chalk and cheese.
