What is Up with Musicians Looking at Sheet Music?!!
When I was a teenager, I wanted to become a musician. I didn’t practice enough to get good at anything, but in the process, I saw tons of musicians perform,…
More on “History is Toast” – An Explanation
I have been arguing that History cannot survive AI, and some people have been offering contending views, such as the idea that AI can’t do certain things that certain historians…
AHA’s “Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education”
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 Never Read “Orientalism”. . . But LLMs Can
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…
History is Toast – The Current History Profession Can’t Survive AI
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…
Houses Built on Stilts in the “Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái” (+ChatGPT 5)
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…
Why Digital Humanities Doesn’t Work
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…
Theo Von and Sam Altman on the Future of Historians
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…
The Rise of AI and Liberal Arts Degrees
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…
Vietnam Over the Long Twentieth Century
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,…
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