The AI industry has become obsessed with generating images, videos and text. But one London startup 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. And I’m not alone.
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.
“I've effectively created a complete photographic record of my life from birth until today. Increasingly, younger generations will have that automatically.
