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Empowering Provenance Research in the Age of Big Data and (Re)Generative Artificial Intelligence

By Daniel Fonner

Six years ago, I started a project called ReMasterpieces that used some of the leading AI techniques of that time to recreate works of art that were stolen and subsequently lost or destroyed by the Nazis during World War II. My original …
Magical Machinery? What AI can do for museums

By Kristen Summers

When people hear I work with artificial intelligence, they often imagine that I create software that does magical things. Their minds go to humanistic androids or programs that predict distant future events. But the reality of AI is much …

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