Digital Humanities Seminar: Visual AI & the Digital Humanities: critical and ethical issues

AI has been forecast to enhance, replace or efface diverse human capabilities. Computer vision has been at the leading edge of the current AI boom, but is only now starting to impact and to be understood within the humanities. This talk, complementing a hands-on workshop earlier in the day will give an overview of the current state of the art in computer vision applications in DH, exploring both DH’s critical and ethical contributions to the debate around such controversial technologies as facial recognition, and the technical improvements that humanists have made to artificial visual understanding.