AI can measure our cultural history. But is it accurate?
Art and literature create a massive cognitive fossil record, hinting at past people’s psyches
New computational tools enable scientists to comb through large datasets of books, paintings, music and other art forms to understand past people’s psyches. This 1876 Renoir painting shows the life of leisure that emerged in France in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir