That being said if even humans can’t necessarily always agree with what makes a good photo, can AI do a better job? That’s something that Google wants to try and figure out, by using convolution neural networks to help AI identify photos that we humans rate as good or attractive.

According to Google, “Our proposed network can be used to not only score images reliably and with high correlation to human perception, but also it is useful for a variety of labor intensive and subjective tasks such as intelligent photo editing, optimizing visual quality for increased user engagement, or minimizing perceived visual errors in an imaging pipeline