The Best of Reason: The Future of AI Is Helping Us Discover the Past

Historical teaching and research are being revamped by AI.

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The Best of Reason: The Future of AI Is Helping Us Discover the Past

This week's featured article is "The Future of AI Is Helping Us Discover the Past" by Virginia Postrel.

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses

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The prolog to AI’s recent and abrupt escape from inanity was the web’s transformation of how scholars train themselves.

Until the turn of this century, nobody enjoyed really deep knowledge of the historical record before the invention of printing, because manuscripts were hard to access and harder to read. Then, all of a sudden, character recognition software swallowed and transcribed all the paper chase archives of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries , and shazam, Big History surfaced online.

All of a sudden archival research seemed a lot easier than it had been, just as it’s now dawning on us that language is not quite as complex as it seemed before Claude et at debuted.