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I suppose it's inevitable: in the near future we will rely on AI in photo editing as much as we rely on autofocus today. Most of us are already halfway there. Photoshop's content-aware fill, for instance, uses AI and I'm routinely impressed by how well it works, how swiftly one is able to achieve effects that would have taken a lot more time and technical skill fifteen years ago.Not all of Photoshop's AI tools work quite as well, though. Its suite of 'neural filters', to pick one rather obvious example, are a work in progress - interesting as technical achievements, but underwhelming in practice.The image above, as you may have guessed, has had a neural filter applied, specifically to make Lexie look less grumpy. Less advanced algorithms might have limited themselves to warping existing pixels (twisting lips into a smile, etc). Photoshop's neural filters create new pixels based on the program's understanding of other happy or sad faces, sometimes (as in this case) parting lips and adding teeth.