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In Dead Beat, there's a mention that Sue's skull is displayed separately (for the reasons you describe). Presumably, the offscreen necromancy involved smashing some glass and moving the skull back to the original body.

"the main character gets beat up a lot" Hell's bells, that's the understatement of the century. I sometimes wish that the City of Chicago would lean into the Dresden Files stuff. Like they make a faux-grave close to Inez to match Harry's in Grave Peril. Like they make the headstone and the hole and put a black leather duster in there as a neat trick. Or maybe someone legitimately makes Mac's bar or something. I love how you got a chance to type out "The Building Was On Fire And It Wasn't My Fault" into a musuem typewriter. Ahh, the Bean.....ahhhhhhhh, the Bean. Of course, Demonreach doesn't want people seeing it who aren't meant to see it. They actually did address the Sue's skull was separate from the main body, and that was actually one of the key points of the story in finding the Word Of Kemler. St. Mary of the Angels always strikes me as big even by Church standards when it comes to seeing pictures of it. It also makes me think that Harry gets intimidated from the size of the Church since he's close to 7 foot tall and still describes it as massive.

God, the Field Museum is one I've thought about traveling to see on its own.

As someone that lives in Chicago thanks to this books series, nice to see how much you enjoyed the trip! Hope you come soon again to enjoy food and the nice people of the city.

Dresden files fan and I grew up in Bucktown. My best friend’s childhood home was round the corner from St. Mary’s. Chicago is a great town event tho I no longer live there. Please visit again.

This was a fantastic video. thank you for sharing your trip.

a video on the game writing exhibit and on the museum would be awesome, Happy New Year!!

I was driving in St Louis a few years ago and realized that a scene from an Anita Blake book was just a few blocks from my son's house.

I'll be going back to my usual content in the New Year, but I wanted to end 2024 on a light, fun note! :)

Great video

Yes please to the writer's museum. Chicago is very much like Toronto. A little bit worse and a little bit better. But still.

great video!

Where do you work sounds amazing

Thanks for showing some beautiful lesser known paintings I haven’t seen before.

I agree that presenting fashion history as just "look at the sparklies!" does a huge disservice to both the items and the visitors. Fashion, like any other art form, is influenced by the society and politics around it- you have to give context!

Been there! Loved it!

Shut up Nobody cares about the first black artist talk about the first artist in general same with this shit I hear all the time “first woman to finish this marathon” like okay…she wasn’t the first to finish it in general

I opened Meeple Valley Board Game Cafe in Modesto, CA. I am a statistic lol

This is legit a really awesome series, thank you. I have heard of him (probably because of Cicero or the Vesuvius Challenge), but I can't recall ever seeing any of his writings.

Out of curiosity I went to the living museum website and looked up the "Warren Cup". It didn't do anything dramatic like try and excuse the type of sexual relationships depicted but still it felt really weird to be "in conversation" with an object like that. Really highlighted the need for curation and interpretation as I think it would have been possible to chat with the object without ever raising the issue of its subject matter/Roman sexual politics.

bur she should not use Indian designers to recreate it..thts the fault!!

I hate that they're calling these things "AI". AI has always referred to the (so far science fiction) idea of an artificial person. These... aren't that. The (simplified) way these things are made is by giving them a lot of examples of "here's a question I might ask, and here's the answer I would want". It then comes up with an algorithm that generates the expected answers for as many of the questions as possible. Then, you can ask it a new question that it hasn't seen before and it can use that algorithm to generate an answer. That's all that's happening here. An algorithm that a computer made up by randomly trying things until it met a goal. An actual AI would be, like, an artificial brain with its own perspective, ideas, and opinions. Assuming it knew what it was talking about, something like that would actually be super helpful in a museum. It could basically be a well-informed companion for guests that would otherwise struggle to interpret the exhibits.

When I said I wanted Night in the Museum to be real, this isn't what I meant

The (unethical) is just so funny (gone wrong) (they kissed) (i get punched)

I propose a new rule, stealing from the British museum is not only legal it is mandatory.

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I'd love for someone to play with a model speaking as my corpse. The difference is that I'm alive now and able to say I like the idea. I can give explicit consent to the idea. Those corpses can't and haven't given consent. Sorry if too many comments. I just enjoy responding to a video as I watch it. Sometimes to detriment. (Ironically, if the creator had used AI search to learn about museums before making this, as bad as those tools are, they still would've gotten a better perspective. :P)

I keep seeing people praising "AI search" but every time I use it, it's confidently wrong and ignores vast swaths of reality. In some cases it's understandable (LLMs only focus on popularity, not truth), but other times it's just wildly wrong with no discernable reason. Your description of trying to find potlatch-related artefacts is such a perfect example of how bad AI search is. (My favorite example is asking an LLM about throium reactors. They will always bring up a lot of info about China because US-focused media wants to paint China as an enemy and therefore anything that is done in China that can be twisted into a threat is promoted heavily. Most of the research on thorium reactors has occurred in India, but LLMs will only mention this if you specifically ask for it. You have to already know about the topic in order to get real results instead of what's in the news.)

Based on the description of what it is, I think the person who made this only visited a museum when they were a child and created their memory of it instead of revisiting what it is. Or they haven't ever been to a museum.

Stealing the name of living museums is a very AI thing to do, especially considering LLMs stole the name AI so that serious AI research can't be taken seriously anymore because it's conflated with only one branch of AI research now. :D

Tech bros think everyone else’s job is as useless as their own. This “program” just proves how important the role of archivists, curators, librarians, and all other types of museum and information specialists is to our society. As someone who is specifically hoping to go into digital archiving, I am SO TIRED of all these tech bros thinking anything AI can do it all

THANK you for this. Needs saying, SO much. Subscribed and keep up the excellent work. Oh and black cat bonus!!! Perfection.

Gross 🤢

Ive always wondered what the colossal scarab is thinking

It makes me uncomfortable how often you say "AI" when describing a LLM chatbot. Mentally conceptualize the spellchecker/word suggestion thing in Microsoft Word - that's closer to what those LLMs are , very very advanced spell checkers. When you say AI (I know that's how they describe it, but .... please don't allow marketers to define our language) it implies things that are simply not true and make the discussion harder. Sorry to bitch, doing my part to maintain the ..... it's not an overton window, but it's the first term that comes to mind - when it comes to this LLM stuff: That tech bro probably /did/ just walk in and decide he knew more about museums. I'm not a techbro doctor, but casual observation suggests those dudes love to invent something that already exists and make it more complicated and worse and more expensive. I'd really like to see the British Museum. Years ago I tried going, but turns out it was some sort of holiday and the admission line was wrapped around the entire building, haven't had a chance to get back to see it since, but I will some day! nice video

Good vid. Like the last one, I think you have excellent criticisms. That said, I think this is again an illustration of two major issues: 1) AI is still young. It's got a lot of improvements to make - and is improving at a dramatic pace. 2) this guy doesn't understand the museum field. I'd also add that his app just sounds poorly designed. I wonder if he put a lot of thought into it or if it was just a random weekend project where he shoved the brittish museum data into an llm just to see what happens. However... if the app was well designed (technically, ethically, etc.), I think that it could do a decent job and would be a worthwhile idea for museums to pursue, even with the limitations of current AI. Some improvements: * AI making chain-of-reason checklist to think through outputs and double-check results * Additionally, rely more on traditionally organized info (e.g. the ai could check what the brittish museum website returns for a search on "potlatch") * Train it specifically on the ethical issues, and avoid speaking "on behalf" of people or things where it may pose issues. (a "virtual tourguide" speaking instead would already be an improvement.) (I know we may differ on what counts as "issues") anyways, to me, this is poor implementation of AI but I expect to see similar, much improved, projects in the coming years, probably from many museums as well.

This app is ultimately not actually intended to be educational, is the thing. This isn't Jonathan Talmi's day job. He literally isn't allowed to use this data and monetize it according to the British Museum license. This is a toy that Jonathan Talmi built to impress other people who are already in the AI space with how good Jonathan Talmi is at AI stuff. It's a way for him to position himself as an AI influencer and possibly to get a high-paying position at an actual funded AI company. It hasn't worked, as far as I can tell? He hasn't exactly blown up on Twitter. But that was almost certainly the intent. He doesn't care if a single normal person ever uses this, and the only reason it's museum-related is that the data was available.

It seems to me that a "curation" function should let you select items, group them, put them in specific orders, make note of connections...that was just a bad search function.

Great video, instantly subscribed to your channel!

Excellently framed ethical questions,. Also I laughed so hard at the delivery of "Noooo.... I wasn...."

I'm all for new ways to get people interested in museums, so if someone wants a collection of images of yellow jugs & that's their gateway into what else they can find in a museum, sure. But. Is this really the best way? 😬 A lot goes into curation & display. I recently went to the Wadsworth Athenaeum museum and had a blast. In a room full of mostly 19th century American paintings (think: lots of landscapes), there was a grouping of three paintings which made me mentally applaud whoever arranged them. At first glance, they were three similarly sized & shaped landscape paintings. A closer look at the one in the middle, Martin Johnson Heade's Gremlin in the Studio, made me burst out laughing. Kudos to whoever arranged them like that. The problem with seeing things kind of out of context or not arranged in an edifying fashion is that you miss a lot of what's really going on.

as a fellow museum employee: holy shit

Interesting topic!

excellent video

I feel like this chatbot replaces a museum as well as AI can replace teachers. It reduces a complex and passionate field of professionals to a search engine. Thanks for giving such a clear and detailed critique on a tech application implemented without the same thought or care. ❤

Oh yeah, I always looked at a vase and thought "I wish it could talk". I am sure it happens all the time to everybody. Tech bros are their own kind of dumb for real.

Thank you for the lovely and intellectually stimulating video, as always!

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