La Basilica Di San Pietro

What does AI have to do with this? They thoroughly scanned the thing, where's the need for AI?

Photogrammetry has rebranded itself to "Spatial AI".

Not an explicit field expert, but pretty well into computer graphics(games) and been reading a bunch of papers in the field over the years.

Classic photogrammetry was always a mixed bag in terms of results (especially if trying to construct meshes), but even before NeRFs (Neutral Radiance Fields) and Gaussian Splatting there was a ton of work using neural nets to handle various parts and I doubt that many modern tools avoid using them.

So in a way, these fields actually made use of neutral nets/"AI" (honestly more relevant imho than most of the LLM stuff).