Perhaps, in time, it may be able to produce subtle images, if the market desires, but I can see it only as a very quick way of producing impact for social media posting. I noted that most/ all? of the participants were male and of an age but are we still trying to make women look like Barbie? I am not above changing a sky or adding a touch of oomph to an image but Luminar almost looks like a return to the bad old early days of Photomatix. I am not a complete Luddite and welcomed the change from CPM to MSDOS to Windows even if I still own records and a record player. It could be a natural reaction to modern technology that threatens to deskill but I would prefer to return or wait for nicer light or a better sky but I am in the fortunate position of not having to sell my images. Keven you demonstrated it well and I got a good insight into what it could do but most of what it does isn’t for me. I watched the demo with increasing horror. This podcast debate between Stuart Russell and Steve Pinker is also very interesting. If you are interested in learning more about AI in general, and its potential threats to humanity, I recommend the book by leading AI researcher Stuart Russel – Human Capatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control. Kevin – if you are interested, I’ll buy a Deep Dream subscription and write a PhotoPXL review article.

The tool offers a variety of styles with different strength levels. I attached my original image and two Deep Dream modifications here.

I just did some free trials – to get the full capacity you need to subscribe to a monthly plan. Use this link Deep Dream Generator to subscribe to the online service that allows you to apply this technology to your images. Here are some really wild Deep Dream videos: video 1 and video 2 – Warning! Do not watch these under the influence of psychedelic drugs. What can happen when you tell a neural net to distort a pastoral landscape to look more like cats? Watch and find out. This video explains Deep Dream processing that walks through examples starting with a landscape image. In order to gain some insight into what’s going on inside a program like Luminar, it is worthwhile to look at the extreme – which is Google’s Deep Dream.

Thanks to Kevin for a great overview of Luminar AI.

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