Student take on #GPTs ability to tell stories. "The general tone of the plot is similar to many stories generated by ChatGPT, where there is a small challenge that ends up being resolved in a relatively empty and unmeaningful way. The plot of the story is vague and generic."

_Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023_ is now live and open-access on the Manifold DDH platform!! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/deb... @laurenfklein.bsky.social & I offer deepest thanks to our contributors for their work and to @uminnpress.bsky.social for its support of open-access publishing!

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Where do the digital humanities stand in 2023? *Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023* presents a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environm...

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Going to CHR in Paris? Come a day early on Dec 5 for our pre-conference workshop on LLMs for computational literary analysis. (With me, @tedunderwood.me @andrewpiper.bsky.social @jbarre.bsky.social Poibeau/Epure/Michel/Mélanie/Seminck) workshop-llms4cls.github.io

This ad, selected for me by the algorithm, about how algorithms are manipulating ads.

Job: Open rank TT prof in digital cultural heritage jobs.chronicle.com/job/37507041...

The Santa Fe Institute seeks applications for postdoctoral fellows. This is the best postdoc position in the world for interdisciplinary scientists! More information and application link can be found at apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complex... Application deadline: October 13, 2023.

In four weeks, my book comes out in the US. Insanity. If you're interested, you can pre-order at the usual spots. PUP: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... AMZN: www.amazon.com/dp/069122414...

American Stories, a new collection of 438 million public-domain newspaper stories from the lab of Melissa Dell. 1/2

dell-research-harvard/AmericanStories · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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"How Male and Female Literary Authors Write About Affect Across Cultures and Over Historical Periods" Female authors associated with + emotion, - negativity, - arousal, but in the last decades differences have dissolved. rdcu.be/dlsat

New paper led by Lidya Yurdum (PI: @mehr.nz )—we studied people in 52 countries in an experiment translated into 31 languages, testing a core set of intuitions about music—for at least these intuitions, they were highly consistent! t.co/vys4n7b49o

Students can now use AI to help them read and this raises new questions for educators about when and how we'd like them to use it.

AI Reading Assistance: A Revolutionary Tool or a Threat to Close Reading Skills?

A free section from my course about AI reading assistants

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Well I made it. Another X refugee. This place seems like an amazing idea. Here's to wishing we always get the platforms we want not those we're given.

A survey from Nature found that about half of scientists who used to use Twitter have cut back or quit it entirely & half are using other platforms. 🧪 By Myriam Vidal Valero www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty

A Nature survey reveals scientists’ reasons for leaving the social-media platform now known as X, and what they are doing to build and maintain a sense of community. A Nature survey reveals scientis...

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New blog post, trying to get beyond a debate that has so far treated students mostly as consumers of AI. In the twenty-first century, critical thinking will require understanding how models work.

Liberally-educated students need to be more than consumers of AI

If I'm buying a thinking process, I really need to understand what I see when I look under the hood.

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