I spent some time this summer doing an extended study on translation using AI. My basic question was whether it could help me document translation episodes that have functioned as knowledge generation. I know the phenomenon exists, as I have examples from my own work. I shared these with the AI and asked it to… Continue reading Computational Thinking and AI Research in the Humanities
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When Fluency Outpaces Understanding
Back from my travels, I’m inspired by Tom Gally’s newer experiments with basic humanities research using AI so have started a couple of iterative experiments of my own on translation topics. Basically, this means asking a research question, setting up some parameters, and then letting the AI work on its own, with reports sent to… Continue reading When Fluency Outpaces Understanding
