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AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder

Historians are finally having their AI debate

But the other factors in play (such as prioritizing user feedback via a “thumbs up” button) were similarly rooted in big-picture humanistic concerns like the impact of language on behavior, cross-cultural differences, and questions of rhetoric, genre, and tone. The terrain-based movement system, with specific locations based directly on actual landscapes Darwin wrote about in his Voyage of the Beagle, forces the AI to maintain a kind of literal ground truth. The letter was not tucked into the pages as bookmark or memento but was part of the book’s very construction, as strips of wastepaper deployed as padding to prevent the text block from chafing against the binding.” New findings about Shakespeare’s relationships with his wife, Anne Hathaway( Washington Post).

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