Useful things from the vegetable garden: LLMs and everything else that might grow there. An introduction to machine learning for cultural heritage institutions

Since November 2022 at the latest - with the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT-3 model - developments in the field of ‘AI’ have gone head over heels. The hype is mostly on generative models, although machine learning has already been established for automated transcription, handwriting recognition and the like. For a better understanding of the technology, Xenia Kitaevas presentation gives us a historical and humanities classification of ‘artificial intelligence'.