Weaving the future: making machine learning work for GLAMs

Talk for the Future of Arts, Culture & Technology Symposium (FACT 2024) in a session 'The Machines looking back at us'

We’ve heard how artists and creators are making sense of, and testing the edges of artificial intelligence. In this session, we look at how different institutions are using the same technologies to augment access to the archives and activities. We will hear how experimentation with emerging technologies requires the ability to collaborate and be confident in the uncertainties that the experimentation brings. How do machines see and hear archival collections? What new possibilities emerge from the archive as a result?
Speakers: Dr Mia Ridge (British Library), Dr Keir Winesmith (NFSA), Simon Loffler (via Zoom) (ACMI), moderated by Jeff Williams (ACMI)