LLMs Can Now Conduct Research
Yet another milestone has been reached. ChatGPT (and Claude) can now conduct archival research in a digitized archive.A month and a half ago, I tried to get ChatGPT to investigate…
The Founders of Indonesia and AI Video History
I don’t spend much time on Instagram, but I like what the algorithm there sends me. My “dream world” is one where aesthetics and history merge, and that is definitely…
Angkor’s Route to the Sea Is Hiding in Plain Sight
There is a major blind spot in the scholarship on Angkor. Scholars know that Angkor was connected by water from the Tonle Sap Lake to the Tonle Sap River and…
Claude, Language, and Work
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…
Seven Chickens, Six Hens, One Rooster
I have been spending some time recently looking at the wooden slips, or mujian 木簡 (Việt: mộc giản), that were excavated from the palace of the Nanyue Kingdom in Guangzhou.Nanyue/Nam…
Who Were the Hồi Kê? (aka Historians! It’s Over!!!)
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 View of AI Is Clearly Changing, but Not for the Humanities
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…
Announcing a New (Free) Open-Access Journal: Global Vietnam
My colleague/wife/partner-in-crime Phan Lê Hà and I, with the generous support of dear colleagues, are launching a new journal called “Global Vietnam.”This journal will be published by Amsterdam University Press,…
ChatGPT Is Haunted
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…
Curating Knowledge in the Age of AI Scholarship
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,…
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