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Meet Me in Miami to Explore Museums and AI
Right now I’m working on the agenda for Museums and New Intelligences, the Alliance’s second Knight Foundation-funded mini-conference exploring museum applications of emerging technologies. I hope you will join me at the Pérez Museum … -
Futurist Friday: Argumentative AI
In TrendsWatch 2017 I explored the implications of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) for society and for museums. Museums are already using AI to converse with visitors, and give voice to works of art. I’ve … -
Futurist Friday: Chatting about Art with IBM Watson
Museum chatbots are a bit of an obsession of mine right now, as is artificial intelligence, so finding a project that combines these two technologies made my week. This story in AdWeek reports that IBM Watson (the program that famously … -
Guess, Grind or Ask the AI
Chapter three of CFM’s TrendsWatch 2017 examines how artificial intelligence—computer programs that mimic human abilities such as complex reasoning, language, and pattern recognition—can be harnessed for museum purposes. In today’s guest … -
Artificial Intelligence in Accreditation
One of CFM’s goals is to help museums learn from other sectors, and help other sectors learn from us. For that reason, my colleagues and I cultivate a diverse audience for our work, drawing futurists, games designers, technologists, … -
AI and the Future of History
If you could chat with any historical figure, who would you choose? That question (or a variants such as “who would you invite to dinner”) is used as a pick-up line, debated on the web, even used in in job interviews. Now, thanks to … -
Artificial Intelligence: The Rise Of The Intelligent Machine
“Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” – Alan Kay, computer scientist Computer systems are … -
Futurist Friday: Cognitive Couture
This new installation at The Henry Ford is a marvelous mashup of some of my favorite technologies: artificial intelligence, wearable technology, and emotional cartography. In this case, IBM Watson technology examines tweets tagged … -
Futurist Friday: AI Takes Joy in Painting
What happens when artificial intelligence takes a deep look at art-teacher-cum-t.v.-star Bob Ross? Alexander Reben decided to find out, applying machine learning algorithms to video and audio tracks of Ross’s shows. The result is the … -
Is Augmented Reality the Ultimate Museum App: Some Strategic Considerations
This article originally appeared in the September/October 2011 edition of Museum magazine. An excerpt from Mobile Apps for Museums, available from the AAM Press. In the past year, the innovative forms of augmented reality (AR) appearing on …
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