Discover Lost Details: Photo Analysis with AI

Do you have a photo collection with incomplete information such as names, dates, or places? Used appropriately, artificial intelligence (AI) can help fill in the blanks. In this session, we will combine your family history knowledge with AI guidance to uncover lost photo details. You will learn to identify what you know, what you are missing, and how to prompt AI to analyze your photographs. Demonstrations of specific AI tools like Google Image Search, and ChatGPT’s Genealogy Eyes and Photo Detective will show how AI can help identify people, estimate dates, and recognize places based on clues from the photographs and your family history knowledge. We will address AI limitations and how to evaluate its output. Leave with practical tools and clear steps to make AI your research partner, helping discover lost details in your photo collection.