Artificial intelligence at the service of the gardens of Versailles

The Castello di Versailles and artificial intelligence companies (AI) Ask Mona and Openai have announced a partnership that will allow visitors to the gardens of the vast estate to interact with its statues and fountains. By scanning a QR code or photographing a point of interest in the “largest outdoor statuary museum”, visitors “will be able to chat in real time with 20 fountains and iconic statues, giving them voice to tell their story interactively “, Openai said in a press release. The interaction between visitor and machine will take place “through an intuitive web interface. Each exchange will reveal anecdotes, historical testimonies and little -known secretsenriching the exploration of the gardens and the understanding of the Versailles heritage “.

After the use of augmented reality with Ubisoft and Google Maps, this innovation aims to “better support the discovery and understanding of our French gardens, which are a real extension of the Castle Museum. We are about to co-construction the contents to start an experiment starting next spring. If the experiment is successful, we will think about how to improve and develop it, “added the same source.

This partnership entails for the Versailles castle (8.4 million visitors in 2024), its museum and its holding the provision of scientific contents and information on its collections for the partners involved. “It will help us move faster and exploit our ability to innovate Through technical solutions, but always with a scientific contribution on our part “, it is underlined. Ask Mona, a French company, will rely on a brand new Openai model active in real time. “We will connect our technology to this linguistic model, which will allow us to check the data used by the AI, provided by Versailles, for FSRE answers and explanations,” the co -founder Marion Carré told the FP.