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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning

OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery

AI makes the humanities more important, but also weirder

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

Onfim's World: Child artists in history

When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI

The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope

Using generative AI as part of historical research: three case studies

When the Sackler brothers studied LSD

2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past

Why did clothing become boring?

A deep history of Halloween

On 17th century "cocaine"

Centuries of Childhood

Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the Prehistory of AI

The (history of) spice must flow

Drug history is a backdoor to cultural history

Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators

When Technology Follows Art

Margaret Mead, technocracy, and the origins of AI's ideological divide

How to use generative AI for historical research: Four real-world case studies

The open-stack library: a futuristic technology from the 18th century

Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update

There should be more cash prizes for solving historical mysteries

Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude

Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis

Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes?

Historical maps probably helped cause World War I

Simulating History with ChatGPT

Experiencing scientific revolutions: the 1660s and the 2020s

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