Le Minh Khai's SEAsian History Blog (+ More)

In the late 1990s, I remember that I used the Netscape browser. Then Microsoft Internet Explorer came along and then Firefox. . . At some point I “jumped ship” and stopped using Netscape, but I remember that before I did that, there was a time when I knew that another...

After a break for a few months, it’s difficult to get into the mood to write a new blog post. I have plenty of ideas, but when I think of the time and mental effort that it would take to organize those inchoate ideas into coherent posts, I hesitate. ....

I like to use X/Twitter as a means to gain a sense of how people view a certain issue. This is because as polarized as most media is today, there is still enough diversity on X/Twitter for one to get a sense of the different views on a topic, particularly...

I knew it would come to this. . . When photography was first invented, there were people who claimed that it was able to capture images of ghosts, the dead, etc. I’ve low-key been waiting for something like that to happen with LLMS. . . and today it finally did....

So, I have been experimenting. I have been trying to see what happens when one takes the kind of article that appears in journals such as the Journal of Asian Studies, the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and many others, and asks: could an LLM help produce something like this...

I recently wrote a brief post in which I admitted something that still feels a little strange to say out loud: LLMs can now do much of the work that I do as a historian better than I can. They can read faster, write more fluently, translate more accurately, and...

For the past few months, I have been working heavily with ChatGPT (the paid version). It’s open all day long as I work on various things, and I repeatedly turn to it for various tasks and queries. Up until recently, that is how I have seen and used LLMs, as...

Over the past few years, I’ve seen the same pattern repeated over and over regarding statements made about LLMs. Someone will say something about the capabilities of a given LLM, and then someone else will respond with a dismissive comment to the effect of, “Well, I just ask ChatGPT, Claude,...