I believe ML techniques are the future of video/image compression. When you read a well written novel, you can kind of construct images of characters, locations

I believe ML techniques are the future of video/image compression. When you read a well written novel, you can kind of construct images of characters, locations and scenes in your mind. You can even draw these scenes, and if you're a good artist, those won't have any artifacts. I don't expect future codecs to be able to reduce a movie to a simple text stream, but maybe it could do something in the same vein. Store abstract descriptions instead of bitmaps. If the encoding and decoding are good enough, your phone could reconstruct an image that closely resembles what the camera recorded. If your phone has to store a 50Gb model for that, it doesn't seem too bad, especially if the movie file could be measured in tens of megabytes. Or it could go in another direction, where file sizes remain in the gigabytes, but quality jumps to extremely crisp 8k that you can zoom into or move the camera around if you want. Can't wait for this stuff!