That sounds very helpful, and if AI can do it, then that's great. But also, it seems like rule based file restructuring should already be easily possible without AI. Shame something like that doesn't exist.

It does exist, there are at least dozens of such tools. Here's a random one I found with a quick search. https://photostructure.com/getting-started/automatic-library...

But if it's not powered by AI it won't make the news in 2023

I know on Mac the popular tool for automatic file sorting is Hazel

https://www.noodlesoft.com/manual/hazel/hazel-overview/

You can do that in Apple Photos without an AI stuff.

What they need to do there is actually build a competent photo management app into the OS.

Isn't that what they just did?

No. Nowhere near that. It's a steaming turd.

Short circuit the problem by not taking so many photos. Ask yourself honestly, how often do you ever look at them? If you do, you've probably also got them organized. If you don't, then you're just hoarding.

This sounds a lot like Jobs’ famous “don’t hold it that way” suggestion to solve iPhone 4’s signal dropping.

Asking users to take fewer photos is not a useful solution to the problem of managing large photo libraries.

In Apple-land, it's done that for ages: group via face, put name to face, group by geolocation etc. I think it's started recognizing my dogs too. Happens all device side.

Google photos does amazing work with this. It's face people detection is so good it recognises baby photos all the way to adulthood as the same person.

yeah. I have spent two weeks hashing thousands of pictures scattered around the informal backups and now I still have to deal with different size versions of the same image.

I wish the computer could rename them consistently in my stead and removed the lesser quality versions. I would prefer if it was a tool developed by anyone else but Microsoft.