Google Disrupts Curating Via Artificial Intelligence artnet News

In artnet's predictions for 2017, I wrote that it would be the year Artificial Intelligence would finally crack the problem of curating. That was meant as a joke--but it turns out that I was already behind the times. The whiz kids at Google's non-profit cultural arm, Google Cultural Institute, have spent the year trying to imagine just that. Head to the "Experiments" section of the Cultural Institute website and you will find a catalogue of how they have been attempting to apply "machine learning" to the question of organizing artworks. Perhaps the experiment that best showcases their particular brand of cultural gimcrackery is called "X Degrees of Separation."