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About LMLM

We are Dennis and Dries and we make things talk. From talking historic figures, classical paintings to

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Dries, Loes and Dennis standing next to the AI Loes screen in the Zwin Natuur Park visitor centre

Dries, Loes and Dennis at Zwin Natuur Park. The screen is AI Loes, built with the real Loes.

The founders

Dennis Lippens and Dries De Geyter, the founders

No sales team, no account managers. Whoever answers your mail also builds your installation.

Portrait of Dennis Lippens, co-founder of Lean Mean Learning Machine

Dennis Lippens

Co-founder · conversations and data

Dennis teaches marketing technology at HOGENT and researches how AI changes the way organisations talk to people. At LMLM he shapes what the AI says: the knowledge it answers from, the tone it keeps, and the weekly report that tells you what your visitors really asked.

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Portrait of Dries De Geyter, co-founder of Lean Mean Learning Machine

Dries De Geyter

Co-founder · characters and design

Dries comes from communication design and has worked with generative AI since the first image and voice models. He gives every installation its face, voice and personality, and designs the button, the screen and the figure visitors meet.

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What we do

What we do: Talking Pictures, Talking Points and AI workshops

Each one is built with the venue’s own team and its own material.

Talking PicturesA painting, a cactus, a Roman soldier or a canal that answers as itself. Press the button, ask, listen.
Talking PointsA reception colleague with a face and a voice, answering the practical questions in twenty languages so your staff keep their hands free.
AI workshops and consultancyHands-on sessions on location for marketing and communication teams, given for BNP Paribas Fortis, the City of Antwerp, HOGENT, UBA and Infrabel.
See Talking Pictures See Talking Points About the workshops
How we work

We build on location, with your team

A talking exhibit is finished when your visitors and your front desk say so, not when the code runs.

Dennis and Dries at the Juan the cactus exhibit at Technopolis, one pressing the button, the other pretending to be stung Dries asking a question into the microphone next to the seated AI Roman soldier Quintus Barbius Velinus at the Archeocentrum Velzeke Dennis and Dries on either side of the heyWowza Talking Point at Technopolis Dries and Dennis with the Lego AI stork interviewer at Zwin Natuur Park, Dennis holding the microphone Dennis at the Talking Pictures console in the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent A finger pointing at Juan the talking cactus at Technopolis, with speech bubbles showing example questions

Six installations, at least one of us in every photo.

Dennis and Dries at the Juan the cactus exhibit at Technopolis, one pressing the button, the other pretending to be stung Dries asking a question into the microphone next to the seated AI Roman soldier Quintus Barbius Velinus at the Archeocentrum Velzeke Dennis and Dries on either side of the heyWowza Talking Point at Technopolis Dries and Dennis with the Lego AI stork interviewer at Zwin Natuur Park, Dennis holding the microphone Dennis at the Talking Pictures console in the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent A finger pointing at Juan the talking cactus at Technopolis, with speech bubbles showing example questions
100K+
visitor conversations answered by our installations so far
Already answering at
Technopolis Zwin Natuur Park Museum of Fine Arts Ghent In Flanders Fields Museum Westfront Nieuwpoort Province of East Flanders Stad Dendermonde Waterland vzw
In the news

Talking Pictures on national television

The news item that made a lot of venues pick up the phone.

Children ask the paintings whatever they like, and the paintings answer.

Come and meet us

A call with one of us takes twenty minutes and costs nothing. Bring a venue and an object you would like to hear talk.

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