A.I. Can Expand Your Mind, But Not Your Photo
Customer: “I was on the YouTube the other day and they said that A.I. could make the picture bigger and show what was missing.”
Oh dear. It never goes well when people start with “The YouTube.”
Me: “Well, there are some programs that can extrapolate based on the edges of the photograph, but it’s just a guess.”
Customer: “Can it do it for this?”
He gets out an old-looking photo of a group of people at a party.
Me: “Did you want it to extend the room, or…?”
Customer: “I need to know if my sister was in the kitchen making out with my boyfriend! We got married twenty years ago and they both deny it, but I know they did!”
Me: “There’s no kitchen in this photo.”
Customer: “It’s about five feet to the left. Can you expand the photo?”
Me: “Uh… no. That’s not how it works.”
Customer: “But I thought this new A.I. stuff could do all that!?”
Me: “I said it could guess based on whatever is in the photo.”
Customer: “Well I am in the photo, and I just know what they’re doing in the kitchen!”
She did not get her photo ‘expanded.’
