The American Historical Association has issued some “Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education.”If you have read any of my posts on the future (or what I see as…
I have been thinking about books and reading as we enter the AI/LLM age.There are a couple of books that were hugely influential when I was a graduate student in…
There is a new study that came out recently called “Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI.”This study was carried out by a group of Microsoft researchers…
I recently read a new article by archaeologist Charles Higham and linguist Mark Alves on “The Southeast Asian Prehistoric House: A Correlation between Archaeology and Linguistics.”One of the things I…
Digital Humanities doesn’t work. That is what I, an initial believer and advocate, now think.Let me explain why.Back some fifteen years ago, as the Internet became ever more a part…
CEO of OpenAI Sam Altman was recently interviewed by comedian Theo Von. Early in the interview, Theo asks Altman about the future of History and historians.Here is what they said:(11:14…
Whenever I open Google on my phone, I get suggested news articles to read. For the longest time they were always about classic rock, and I couldn’t figure out why…
Last year I had the honor of bringing to completion, together with my friend and colleague Gerard Sasges, an edited volume called Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century: Becoming Modern,…
A reader left a comment recently on a blog post that I wrote 14 years ago about what I thought was evidence of some Tai-language speaking people in the area…
I was recently reading an article by historian Nicolas Weber entitled “Malays in the Indochinese Peninsula: Adventurers, Warlords and Ministers” [Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society…