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How AI Is Expanding Art History

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Painting entitled " Medicine" (recolored with Artificial Intelligence) by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Credit: Ian Dagnall Computing/Alamy

“From identifying disputed artworks to reconstructing lost masterpieces, artificial intelligence is enriching how we interpret our cultural heritage. Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and computer vision are revolutionizing research — from medicine and biology to Earth and space sciences. Now, it’s art history’s turn. For decades, conventionally trained art scholars have been slow to take up computational analysis, dismissing it […]

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AI Models Make Stuff Up. How Can Hallucinations Be Controlled?

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illustration: shira inbar

“It is hard to do so without also limiting models’ power. It is an increasingly familiar experience. A request for help to a large language model (llm) such as Openai’s Chatgpt is promptly met by a response that is confident, coherent and just plain wrong. In an ai model, such tendencies are usually described as hallucinations. A more informal word […]

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What You Need To Know About AI & Its Impact On Fashion

Sally Shin is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Raive in foreground and a temple in the background

Sally Shin is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Raive

“Sally Shin is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Raive, a new foundation AI company for the multimedia industries. Shin and her team at Raive are partnering with the CFDA to help designers and brands navigate this exciting new enterprise. Whether you’re a small brand or large, Shin shares how AI can support your business goals. How did you […]

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Five Of This Year’s Pulitzer Finalists Are AI-Powered

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“Two of journalism’s most prestigious prizes — the Pulitzers and the Polk awards — on how they’re thinking about entrants using generative AI. Five of the 45 finalists in this year’s Pulitzer Prizes for journalism disclosed using AI in the process of researching, reporting, or telling their submissions, according to Pulitzer Prize administrator Marjorie Miller. It’s the first time the awards, […]

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Choreographer Wayne McGregor Unites Dance, Art And AI In His New Spectacle

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Wayne McGregor and Ben Cullen Williams’ ‘A Body For Harnasie’ (2024) © Ravi Deepres/Luke Unsworth/NOSPR

“‘A Body for Harnasie’ turns a little-known 20th-century ballet into a multimedia fantasia for today. In 1936, Serge Lifar took to the stage of the Paris Opera, costumed to kill. Nijinsky’s heir twirled a pistol in each hand, black curls tumbling from a towering hat, a painted bodice of geometric shapes barely reaching his nipples. The role requiring such provocation […]

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