Matthew Wilkens
@mattwilkens.bsky.social
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Associate professor of Information Science at Cornell.
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Ted Underwood
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New preprint from
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, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +
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Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of period prose does not pro...
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00030
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Cornell UP has a new book series on AI & humanities, "Mechanema." 25-50k words, quick turn-around. I'm not the editor, but happy to make introductions. Hit me up if you have ideas or questions!
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Postdoc in DH at Cornell. Housed in English, but open to all relevant disciplines incl. IS, CSS, and social CS. Applications (letter and CV) due 21 March. Start date July 1 (maybe flexible). Feel free to circulate widely, and to contact me with questions!
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Melanie Walsh
over 1 year ago
🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨 We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to: - measure document similarity - classify texts with zero-shot prompting We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews. Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!
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