Sara Brumfield

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

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

I’ve got two useful AI tidbits for you this month: The first is the best explanation of how large language models work. This is a pretty opaque topic that few attempt to understand, but I think it’s important to grasp – even in metaphor – how systems like ChatGPT work.  When you understand how they work, your intuition for the types of problems they can – or can’t – … [Read more...] about How LLMs Work & A Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox