IBM's Watson is now a museum guide at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo Museum.
Posted on April 26, 2017
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IBM's Watson is now a museum guide at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo Museum. | News
In order to make art more accessible to the 72% of Brazilians who have never been inside a museum, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo Museum partnered with IBM to create an interactive conversation between visitors and the collection. After training IBM's Watson (its artificial intelligence super-computer) for over six months on Brazilian artists like Cândido Portinari and Tarsila do Amaral, museum-goers can now pick up a microphone and headphones at the museum entrance to ask a range of historical and technical questions about exhibited art. IBM has already been approached by two other interested museums in Brazil since.
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