Meet the scaleup tackling AI's forgotten challenge: your camera roll
The AI industry has become obsessed with generating images, videos and text. But one London scaleup is tackling a different challenge: making sense of the enormous personal archives we've already crea... While much of the AI industry focuses on creating images and videos, London scaleup Popsa has built hundreds of AI models to curate, preserve and tell the stories hidden inside our ever-growing photo libraries.
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- Cate Lawrence 1 hour ago Share Share Send email Copy link The AI industry has become obsessed with generating images, videos and text.
I'll be honest, usually the closest I get to curating my photos is deciding which cat photos to delete from my Google pics to avoid having to pay for storage.
- "I've effectively created a complete photographic record of my life from birth until today.
Increasingly, younger generations will have that automatically.
- Its platform analyses the people, places, activities and relationships in your photos to organise, remove duplicates and create a curated version of your life story.
Today, the app generates around 89,000 smart albums, demonstrating the scale at which these AI systems are already helping people organise their memories.
- In most cases, we never see your photos unless you decide to print them," explained Houghton.
Behind the scenes, hundreds of AI models work together to understand what's happening in each image.
- Houghton explains that, in doing so, AI creates a digital version of writing on the back of a digital photo.
While much of the AI industry focuses on creating images and videos, London scaleup Popsa has built hundreds of AI models to curate, preserve and tell the stories hidden inside our ever-growing photo libraries. Artificial Intelligence Meet the scaleup tackling AI's forgotten challenge: your camera roll While much of the AI industry focuses on creating images and videos, London scaleup Popsa has built hundreds of AI models to curate, preserve and tell the stories hidden inside our ever-growing photo libraries. Cate Lawrence 1 hour ago Share Share Send email Copy link The AI industry has become obsessed with generating images, videos and text.
But one London scaleup is tackling a different challenge: making sense of the enormous personal archives we've already created. I'll be honest, usually the closest I get to curating my photos is deciding which cat photos to delete from my Google pics to avoid having to pay for storage. According to research by the startup Popsa , people now take an average of 551 photos per month - more than 6,600 per year.
Yet 70 per cent of photos are buried and never revisited. It's an issue Popsa co-founder and CEO Liam Houghton experienced firsthand. He had more than 200,000 photos in his personal library due in part to digitising his childhood archive, including old computer files and printed photographs, and adding locations and timestamps wherever possible.
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