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Artificial intelligence and mediation in public spaces: beyond ChatGPT, what are the concrete opportunities for interactivity?

Thursday 04 April 2024 | 13:30

Whether we like it or not, by now we've all heard of, or even titillated, tools like ChatGPT, Dall-E, Midjourney and so on. Artificial intelligence has been in the news a lot over the past few years, but mainly through a few high-profile use cases: conversational agents and image generation. Today, however, there are hundreds of AI tools dedicated to more specific tasks and, for each of these tools, hundreds of different creative practices.

At Hovertone, we're convinced that technology is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. Over the past few years, we've set about defining, developing and using in production several AI tools that respond concretely to needs and "dreams" in terms of interactive mediation in public spaces: using real objects to question digital mediation, creating virtual mirrors to plunge visitors into immersive universes, enabling documentary archives to interact with visitors in a spontaneous and lively way, and so on.

This workshop will be devoted to concretely opening up our thought processes and approaches to these innovative tools, based on various concrete cases on display or in production, and thus enable an open discussion on the opportunities, risks, strengths and weaknesses of generative AI for everything to do with interactivity in museum spaces.

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