Artificial Intelligence. It’s a concept that holds lots of promise, generates endless buzz, and is starting to make its way into everyday life. “In 2015, artificial intelligence went mainstream,” and undoubtedly, in 2016, we will begin to see an increase in experimentation within the cultural space. Let's explore some of AI’s most powerful uses related to machine learning and its impact on galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

1. Exploring
Artificial Intelligence
in Museums
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2. Artificial intelligence has gone mainstream.

3. “WTF is machine learning?”
“Microsoft wants to bring machine learning into the mainstream”
“How data and machine learning are 'part of Uber's DNA’"
“These Are The Most Elegant, Useful Algorithms In Machine Learning”
“Machine learning to shape the future of government”
“IBM Unleashes the Power of Machine Learning with Watson-enabled Data Platform”
“Machine Learning, Simply Explained”
“The Top 10 AI And Machine Learning Use Cases Everyone Should Know About”
“Is machine learning sexist?”
“Mark Cuban points to machine learning as the next 'grand slam' in technology”
“Apple Hires Carnegie Mellon AI Academic to Push Machine Learning”
“Why I'm Devoting My Life to Machine Learning”
“AI, machine learning top Gartner’s 10 tech trends in 2017”
“Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes AI is a force for good”
“3 Steps To Jumpstart A Machine Learning Strategy”
“What Do People — Not Techies, Not Companies — Think About Artificial Intelligence?”
“Artificial Intelligence as a Bridge for Art and Reality”

4. What is machine learning?

5. Collections
How will machine learning impact…
Data clean-up
Data classification

6. Ticketing & Attendance
How will machine learning impact…
Predicting attendance and crowd flow
Allocating staffing resources

7. Online Commerce
How will machine learning impact…
Recommendation engine
Conversational commerce

8. Automation!

9. Day-to-day
How will machine learning impact…
Automated chat bot
Scheduling bot

10. Membership & Fundraising
How will machine learning impact…
Segment analysis
Pattern recognition

11. What is machine vision?

12. “We’re going from computers with cameras, that take
photos, to computers with eyes, that can see”
Benedict Evans
a16z

13. Identifying Subject Matter
Machine Vision makes it possible…

14. Machine Vision makes it possible: Identifying Subject Matter
watercraft rowing, rowing, gondola, and painting
The Grand Canal in Venice from Palazzo Flangini to Campo San Marcuola
Canaletto
J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.

15. Sentiment Analysis
Machine Vision makes it possible…

16. Machine Vision makes it possible: Sentiment Analysis
Bust of a Laughing Young Man
Rembrandt
Rijksmuseum
Self-Portrait
Otto Dix
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Femme aux Bras Croisés
Pablo Picasso
Private collection

17. Text / Character Recognition
Machine Vision makes it possible…

18. Machine Vision makes it possible: Text / Character Recognition
California Grapeskins
Ed Ruscha

19. “IN CALIFORNIA YOU CHEW THE JUICE OUT OF GRAPES AND SPIT THE SKIN AWAY. A REAL LUXURY”
California Grapeskins
Ed Ruscha

20. Art Authentication
Machine Vision makes it possible…

22. Recognizing Similarity & Patterns
Machine Vision makes it possible…

23. 94.42%
PH-225
Clyfford Still
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
PH-1074
Clyfford Still
Clyfford Still Museum

24. 96.8%
Water Lilies, 1905
Claude Monet
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Water Lilies, 1907
Claude Monet
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

25. Identifying Subject Matter
+
Extracting Color Composition
+
Facial Recognition
Machine Vision makes it possible…

27. Afropunk Fest
Eduardo Munoz / Reuters
Venus and Adonis
Stephen McKenna
Tate

28. Machine learning and vision are very powerful
tools and are more accessible than ever before.
In the hands of museums, these technologies will
inevitably lead to interesting discoveries, richer
data, and new paths into your collection.

29. This is just the beginning.

30. Thank you!
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