We’re excited to announce that with our collaborators from the Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi (CWRGM) Project, Lindsey R. Peterson of the University of South Dakota and Elizabeth La Beaud from the Mississippi Digital Library, we’ve received a National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for “Subject Spotter: Automation & … [Read more...] about Subject Spotter: Our NEH Grant for LLM Aided Entity Recognition and Identification
Animatronic GPTs at Museums?
Ben and I were recently in San Jose, California for a wedding. We stopped by the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum for an afternoon visit, and were surprised to find an astonishing use of ChatGPT: A responsive, animatronic Thoth! You step up to a microphone, and ask Thoth a question, and he lectures – in this he resembles the know-it-all ChatGPT– tying your question to a … [Read more...] about Animatronic GPTs at Museums?
Envisioning Ancestors with AI
This month we are excited to share a fascinating project that highlights the power of crowdsourced transcriptions combined with AI. The Library of Virginia recently hosted a workshop titled "Envisioning Ancestors with AI," which utilized transcriptions of historic records from the Virginia Untold project (transcribed on FromThePage) to create imaginative depictions of people … [Read more...] about Envisioning Ancestors with AI
All the Things: Useful Metadata from AI
Ben and I have been brainstorming things that could be done with AI tools once you have transcriptions – crowdsourced or HTR’d – of documents. There’s a LOT! I thought it would be fun to share that list with you, to spark ideas and possibilities. Reply and let me know what ideas you have and what we missed. Yes, some of these are crazy – but many of them are not. And I … [Read more...] about All the Things: Useful Metadata from AI
Privacy And Copyright Considerations Using GPT Models
Last week we hosted a webinar with Jessica Roberson and Jeremiah Colonna-Romano from the University of Alabama on how they were experimenting with OpenAI's GPT models for their archival metadata workflows. In the Q&A Jessica and Jeremiah were asked: Did you think of any privacy or copyright considerations when you were putting this content into ChatGPT? I had to chime … [Read more...] about Privacy And Copyright Considerations Using GPT Models