Augmentation & AI
How are new technologies shaping culture as data?
In-Class Agenda
Assigned Materials
- Underwood, Ted. “Can Language Models Predict the next Twist in a Story?” The Stone and the Shell (blog), January 5, 2024. https://tedunderwood.com/2024/01/05/can-language-models-predict-the-next-twist-in-a-story/.
- Samora, Russell, and Michelle Pera-McGhee. “We Had an AI Attempt to Make a Data-Driven Story like We Do at The Pudding.” The Pudding, July 2024. https://pudding.cool/2024/07/ai.
Additional Materials
- Underwood, Ted. “Machine Learning and Human Perspective.” PMLA https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/109140.
- McGrath, Laura B. “Charisma (Embodiment): a Response to Tess McNulty.” Post45 (2019) https://post45.org/2019/05/charisma-embodiment-a-response-to-tess-mcnulty/.
- Lee, Benjamin Charles Germain. “The ‘Collections as ML Data’ Checklist for Machine Learning and Cultural Heritage.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2023). https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24765.
- Bender, Emily M., et al. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT ’21), 2021, 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922.
Additional links
- AI for Humanists Project https://aiforhumanists.com/
- Copied notebook from AI for Humanists with our novels data available here
- Additional local notebooks using Classification Models & LLMs. Be sure to install the necessary Python libraries into your virtual environment as well.