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        Date: 2023-05-15 17:29:38+00:00
        From: Henry Schaffer <hes@ncsu.edu>
        Subject: AI in research in History

How AI is helping historians better understand our past

The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people
lived centuries ago.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/11/1071104/ai-helping-historians-
analyze-past/

Interesting - and I liked this sentence:

"False history is nothing new—Cohen points to the way Joseph Stalin ordered
enemies to be erased from history books, as an example—but the scale and
speed with which fakes can be created is breathtaking, ..."

--henry


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