You might look at a video about AI solving frontier math and designing computer chips and think: How is this relevant to my photography?
The truth is that the exponential growth of AI is the invisible engine powering most advanced creative tools today. Features like Photoshop’s Generative Fill, AI noise reduction, resolution upscaling etc, are just the start. This video shows where that engine is heading and why we all need to pay attention.

Two core ideas
Singularity: a tipping point where tech changes life so fast that the future is hard to predict. The hosts say it is already underway.
AGI: an AI that can learn and solve problems across many fields. They see it as the next big driver of creative power.

What changes next:
Intelligence gets cheap: Complex tasks from code to advanced edits become easy to request. The barrier to high quality work drops for everyone.
Vision matters more: As tools like Sora mature, platforms like YouTube win. If you have a clear story, AI will handle camera work, lighting, and edits.
Transfer Learning: When we get great at one craft, we can move up or sideways, but it takes years, money, and lots of re-training. Most of that growth stays inside a narrow domain. AI has strong transfer learning, it can reuse what it learns in one area across many others and almost instantly. Skill in generating lifelike digital humans could carry over to lighting, motion, 3D scenes and full cinematic cuts without starting from scratch each time.

What all of this means for photography
Your value shifts from how to why. The craft will be executed by AI. What remains rare is your eye, your lived experience, and the meaning you bring to an image. However, when digital becomes effortless, the slower film process gains meaning. Some purists and collectors will prefer negatives, grain, and darkroom prints. Vintage cameras and darkroom prints signal intent and craft. The challenge however, especially in Pakistan, will be access to film stocks and print labs.

Key Takeaway
Spend less time on technical aspects and more on vision, story and intent. Those are the skills that may be more valuable and this is why I keep my focus more on the ‘why’ and less on the ‘how’ part of photography.

An Ai generated illustration of a building I photoraphed recentily inside Bhaati Gate, Lahore.

My photograph that was used to generate the illustration within seconds