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Art history research assisted by ChatGPT

Unless you’ve spent the last months under a rock, you’ve certainly heard about ChatGPT. Unbridled pundits have discussed its pro’s and con’s, and even demanded a moratorium. So let’s give it a spin for our purposes.

I’ve grown quite fond the work by the painter Hans Hartung (1904-1989). I tried to have a hopefully interesting discussion with ChatGPT about his work. I tried to apply some prompt magic to spice the responses a bit. Here’s the transcript of our conversation.

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Using neural networks to classify 3D scans of museum artefacts

For my capstone project in machine learning at EPFL, I wrote a classifier capable of sorting 3D scans of archaeological objects by culture.

Digitization of museum collections is currently a major challenge faced by cultural heritage and natural history museums. Museums are expected to digitize the collections to improve not only the documentation of artifacts, but also their availability for research, reconstruction and outreach activities, and to make these digital representations available online.

Machine learning setup

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