The Museo Nacional del Prado has put Artificial Intelligence at the service of the dissemination of its Collection. With the help of the Spanish start-up -Sherpa.ai- it has developed an algorithm to identify and list objects and people in a series of works.
Once this data is known, the Museum is launching a project called “Telling the Prado”, which uses the numerical anecdote to continue telling stories to painting enthusiasts and lovers of the Prado.
The Museum today poses a series of questions on its social networks in which questions of enumeration or comparison are posed with the sole purpose of continuing to encourage the gaze of all audiences.
Among the selected works are St. Ursula with the Eleven Thousand Virgins, The Meadow of St. Isidore and Ommegang Festival in Brussels, among others.
Detalle de Fiestas del Ommegang en Bruselas: procesión de gremios. Denis van Alsloot. 1616. Museo Nacional del Prado
“Telling the Prado” is a project that aims to stimulate the knowledge of its collection in a creative and universal way through the identification of details of a selection of works where quantity, repetition or agglomeration are an essential part of the theme represented. Parades, triumphal entries, disembarkations, festivities… can now be admired from another point of view.
To achieve this, Sherpa.ai has developed an AI system capable of counting different elements (people, horses, paintings, boats…) in a selection of works from the Prado’s permanent collection.
To show the conclusions of this development, the Prado Museum launches a new dynamic in social networks through a series of questions focused on enumeration and comparison, which will invite to reflect and share answers.
About Sherpa.ai
Sherpa.ai is the leading company in Artificial Intelligence applied to data privacy. It has the most advanced federated learning platform in the market, enabling companies and institutions to collaborate without compromising privacy or information security. Its technology has been adopted in key sectors such as healthcare, finance, cybersecurity and industry, where Sherpa.ai contributes to improved decision making and business results without the need to share sensitive data.
The Sherpa.ai team includes professionals such as Tom Gruber, former CTO and co-founder of Siri; Thomas Kalil, former White House Director of Science and Technology; Doug Solomon, former Apple Chief Strategy Officer; and Joanna Hoffman, former Apple marketing executive.