none 10.14361/9783839467107-011 Transcript Verlag Transcript Verlag 5471 157688537 4680465 3852662 2024020611515629100 10.14361 2026-06-01T14:29:10Z 2024-02-05T09:02:05Z 2 2702-3990 2702-9026 Sonja Thiel Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Deutschland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0443-3685 Johannes C. Bernhardt https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1988-8957 Reflections, Perspectives and Applications Artificial intelligence is becoming an increasingly important topic in the cultural sector. While museums have long focused on building digital object databases, the existing data can now become a field of application for machine learning, deep learning and foundation model approaches. This goes hand in hand with new artistic practices, curation tools, visitor analytics, chatbots, automatic translations and tailor-made text generation. With a decidedly interdisciplinary approach, the volume brings together a wide range of critical reflections, practical perspectives and concrete applications of artificial intelligence in museums, and provides an overview of the current state of the debate. 74 1 12 12 2023 12 04 2023 978-3-8376-6710-3 978-3-8394-6710-7 transcript Verlag Bielefeld, Germany https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 10.14361/9783839467107 https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/6710 Baptiste Caramiaux https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4590-106X This paper discusses AI in the context of cultural heritage. First, I contextualize what we call AI, particularly with respect to infrastructure. With this representation in mind, my first objective is to outline the opportunities that AI can bring to these sec- tors, as identified in a series of reports and white papers edited by European institu- tions. 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