Ten years ago this month, I spent several weeks traveling through Southeast Asia. While in India, I visited the Taj Mahal and was somewhat disappointed to find it undergoing routine cleaning with scaffolding on three of the four minarets. This was after sprinting to reach the reflecting pool ahead of all others (full story here).

Fast forward a decade, and I was able to remove the distractions with a simple command and artificial intelligence to create the image below. I find this both exciting and disappointing. The fact is that I could now prompt the software to place a picture of me in the scene without ever setting foot in India.