Computer scientists as rogue art historians
Computer scientists as rogue art historians  
Podcast: Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM
Published On: Wed Apr 12 2023
Description: What can art historians and computer scientists learn from one another? Actually, a lot! Amanda Wasielewski joins us to talk about how she discovered that computer scientists working on computer vision were actually acting like rogue art historians and how art historians have found machine learning to be a valuable tool for research, fraud detection, and cataloguing. We also discuss the rise of generative AI and how we this technology might cause us to ask new questions like: "What makes a photograph a photograph?"