It’s essentially the most fundamental of capabilities for a digicam, that while you level it at a scene, it produces {a photograph} of what it sees. [Jasper van Loenen] has created a digicam that does simply that, however not maybe within the we’d count on. As an alternative of committing pixels to reminiscence it takes an image, makes use of AI to generate a textual content description of what’s within the image, after which makes use of one other AI to generate a picture from that image. It’s a curiously stunning paintings in addition to an final expression of the present obsession with the expertise, and we quite prefer it.

The digicam itself is a black field with a easy twin-lens reflex viewfinder. Inside is a Raspberry Pi that takes the photograph and sends it by means of the assorted AI providers, and a Fuji Instax Mini printer. Of specific curiosity is the connection to the printer which we predict could also be of curiosity to fairly a couple of others, he’s reverse engineered the Bluetooth protocols it makes use of and created Python code permitting straightforward printing. The photographs it produces are like so many such AI-generated items of content material, fairly to have a look at however otherworldly, and peculiar parallels of the scenes they characterize.

It’s inevitable that shopper cameras will earlier than lengthy provide AI augmentation options for less-competent photographers, in the meantime we’re happy to see Jasper getting there first.