AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. We recently hosted a webinar by our friend Jon Ippolito from the University of Maine's New Media program. We'd been looking for resources on how to evaluate and judge energy usage by LLMs since last summer's SAA panel questions started with a pointed "question" on the ethical … [Read more...] about Making AI Energy Use More Transparent
AI With Historical Instincts?
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. Ben recently made the following observations on BlueSky, and we thought they were interesting enough to share with all of you: I stumbled across something interesting during a live demo in yesterday's webinar. Not having anything prepared, I tried a page in the … [Read more...] about AI With Historical Instincts?
How Good HTR is Changing What & How We’re Transcribing
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. In a recent discussion on BlueSky, Ben and Scott Weingart (and others) had a conversation about the explosion of possibilities that might come from good, cheap, AI transcription. Scott asks “how the bias of the spotlight of what’s searchable will reshape how people will … [Read more...] about How Good HTR is Changing What & How We’re Transcribing
Environmental Impact of AI
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. At the Society of American Archivists conference last August, I joined a panel on artificial intelligence. The first question from the audience came quickly and, frankly, with a little heat: "How do you justify using energy-intensive tools like AI when the climate crisis is … [Read more...] about Environmental Impact of AI
How Do You Know Whether AI Is "Good Enough"?
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. Yesterday we deployed two new features to help you evaluate Gemini 3 (and eventually others) results against human transcribed or corrected text. First, we’ve developed a comparison screen that shows the differences between an AI generated page transcription and human … [Read more...] about How Do You Know Whether AI Is "Good Enough"?