AI & History

In the previous post, I talked about how LLMs can do a better job of translating than humans can, and I gave an example of a factual mistake that ChatGPT…

In the early years of this blog, I used to write about what I called “the evils of quốc ngữ.” By that I was referring to the problem of scholars…

The period of Nguyễn dynasty rule in the nineteenth century, particularly the reign of Emperor Minh Mạng (1820–1841), is richly documented in the official dynastic chronicle, the Đại Nam thực…

The more I work with LLMs in my research, the more it seems to me that we need to think more carefully about what exactly we are interacting with when…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…