A Summary Of The Arrival Of Agents Over The Past Six Months
“There’s always been a knowledge overhang between the median experience of most historians and the AI frontier, but it’s become a chasm and I don’t think most people know what to believe or think anymore. Nevertheless, a consensus has formed in the AI community that we’ve crossed an important threshold beyond which everything will change. […]
How AI Can Help Deciphering Primary Source Documents
GenAI Aids Handwriting Deciphering In Historical Documents
“I tried it out on transcribing some handwritten texts and the results were shocking: not only was the transcription very nearly perfect—at expert human levels—but it did a something else unexpected that can only be described as genuine, human-like, expert level reasoning. It is the most amazing thing I have seen an LLM do, and […]