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Tag: artificial intelligence

Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General
AI, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Apps, Central Asian Studies, Coding, DH in General, DH in Practice, Editor's Digest, New Post, Ottoman Studies, South Asian Studies, Workflow

Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General

Introduction This year’s pieces for Digital Humanities in General have covered various aspects of the practice and theory of Digital … Continue reading Editor’s Digest May 2026: Digital Humanities in General

Buddhism and AI: Another Look
AI, Buddhist Studies, Central Asian Studies, New Post

Buddhism and AI: Another Look

In recent months, I have come to identify as a neo-Luddite or, as a colleague said in jest, “a technophobe … Continue reading Buddhism and AI: Another Look

Loss by Omission: GenAI Summarization Tools and History Knowledge
AI, Central Asian Studies

Loss by Omission: GenAI Summarization Tools and History Knowledge

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become ubiquitous in our society, AI functions are more accessible and visible. When you use … Continue reading Loss by Omission: GenAI Summarization Tools and History Knowledge

Voices from the Past: Retrieval-Augmented Dialogues with Chinese Historical Figures
AI, DH in Practice, LLM, New Post, Sinology, Teaching

Voices from the Past: Retrieval-Augmented Dialogues with Chinese Historical Figures

This post was co-authored with Prof. Du Chunmei (Lingnan University, Department of History). History can feel like a silent discipline, … Continue reading Voices from the Past: Retrieval-Augmented Dialogues with Chinese Historical Figures

Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)
AI, DH in Practice, New Post, OCR, Sinology, Visualization, Workflow

Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)

This is a guest post by Jiajun Zou. See bio at the end of this post. Part I Tianyige Ming … Continue reading Creating the largest Juren Dataset with ChatGPT: A Journey through Digital Humanities. (Part One)

AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?
Online Resources, Software, Visualization

AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?

When AI image generator services were opened to the public on the vast web in 2021, they quickly became viral … Continue reading AI, Machine Learning, and Neural Networks: Friends or Foes in the Historical Investigation?

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