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
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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"?
Introducing Gemini 3.0 Support in FromThePage
AI is changing so fast, and so is FromThePage. Here’s a look at the AI features we currently offer. When Ben sent me Mark Humphries’ report on testing a new, unreleased Gemini model, I got scared. And excited. Mark is a historian and digital humanist who’s gone deep on analyzing AI tools for textual transcription. He understands the dangers of “seductive … [Read more...] about Introducing Gemini 3.0 Support in FromThePage
Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)
I've just returned from a Prosopography Hackathon at the University of Vienna, a three day long digital humanities event to "hack" databases of people and biography. After a short brainstorming session, I volunteered for "information extraction" (getting information out of texts), but my three-person team had dissolved by the afternoon of the first day. I feared I'd have to … [Read more...] about Prosopography Hackathon Project: Using Machine Learning to extract entities from Ancient Greek (and other languages)