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…
Vietnam has an AI Image Problem
A little over a year ago, I started learning about AI image generation. There are a lot of tools for creating AI images. Perhaps the most popular is Midjourney. You…
Creating an Historical Family with AI
AI filmmaking is still in its infancy, but it is developing very rapidly. As a historian, I would like to be able to use AI to bring the past to…
Using AI to Imagine Life at the Crocodile Pit in Early-Twentieth-Century Borneo
I came across the above picture in the British Colonial Office archives. It is of Chinese miners in the early twentieth century in Borneo at a place called “Lobang Buaya,”…
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“Savages” in Vietnamese History: An [AI] Tale of Borders and Beliefs
In 2017, I wrote a blog post about a tool (AntConc) that can be used to search through texts, and I talked about how we could use that tool to…
History Is Over. So, Let’s Get Started.
Just about a year ago, I wrote a blog post in which I talked about ways in which AI can make life exciting and productive for historians.It was an optimistic…
History in the AI Age: A Self-Reflection
In the spring of 1994, during my first year of graduate school, I took a seminar on Chinese Intellectual History. In that seminar, in addition to weekly readings and discussions,…