P: AI Culling

If, and that's a big if, Adobe was to develop something along the lines being described, then very likely the AI models would reside server side (much as they do now for Lr web's 'Choose Best Photos' feature as oultlined by @Jao vdL above. As such, it's much more likely to turn up in Lightroom Desktop, which is already using server side AI models for face detection, keywording, etc. Lr Classic isn't part of the cloud ecosystem and Adobe have shown no interest to date in changing that any time soon.

They're working on this right? that's why it's so quiet, com'n people make some noise to get this to happen.
This is what we need, not some third party software to go back and forth with.
Come on Adobe, if you can do Generative fill in Ps, why can't we have this Ai culling in Lightroom?

I would be surprised (pleasantly) if Adobe would add this into Classic but for all your info, you can get Adobe's AI to choose images for you NOW. If you go to the web version of Lightroom, there is a AI "choose best photos" tool that you can apply to collections synced to the cloud from Classic. It works surprisingly well but it is a bit opaque what criteria they use. It does seem to be composition, color, exposure, people in the picture with open eyes, etc. but unclear indeed. A user controllable AI suggestion tool would be fantastic. In this example below, it clearly favors shots with animals over landscapes 😉

As a long time Lr user and Ps user, I would love to see this a feature, agree with most of the comments so far.

I don't really want to pay a 3rd party to cull but it's looking this way.

I would like to see a feature that culls,

a. blurred images

b. closed eyes

c.duplications

Being a wedding photographer and going through images that are or are not blurred is time consuming.
I would really love to see Adobe pic this up in Lr.

I like the idea of a help for culling images. Not only for wedding photographers but all photographers. We have seen some improvement in Develop panel, but the data managemement part of LR hasn't evolved much since ages.

On a purely pragmatic point, however, I'm not so confident to see such improvements in LRc. Here is why: it has been quite obvious the emphasis is now towards cloud management and computing. (in the end, with LR 'could', Adobe is selling sotrage space over anything else). Evidence for this is the strict boundary between LRc and LR 'cloud': key catalog features such as stacks, people, keyword, ... just don't sync.

I have much higher hopes regarding AI featers that's run locally such as for image processing. Features which can be carried over from and to CR, PS, ...

For cataloging features, however, I fear any improvement will be done in the cloud but won't be available in LRc. Speaking of which, there is "Choose Best Photos" on the cloud version:

with options:

I can see this tool being improved over time, but I'm not expecting anything similar in LRc, sadly.

I would say a company whos networth has incresed over 35% in the past year and is worth over $240 Billion doesnt need self-employed wedding photographers to pay them to stay current lol. They can afford it just fine lol. Plus culling is benefitial to many many other types of photographers other than wedding photographers. Its available, they already are integrating AI, so they can afford to roll it out for everyone.

It would be nice if an AI-enabled feature can allow better facial recognition results.  Right now, facial recognition does a very poor job of identifying people in photos.

I have been a loyal customer since LR 4, but I'm not a wedding photographer.  And I suspect that the majority of LrC subscribers are also not wedding photographers.

If the earliest possible availability of this feature is important to wedding photographers, I suggest a GoFundMe campaign to allow Adobe to create a specialized team just focused on this feature..

@Keith Reeder good on you. I'm not quite delighted. Same with many others. 

I agree with the idea of AI Culling. I am looking for something similar to what can be found in Aftershoot, where the program is able to cull based on lack of sharpness, emotions, facial features, eyes being closed, etc. Since Lightroom Classic excels at being an organizational tool, it would be very useful to have one of those organizational features be assistance with culling based on those factors or others.