Matthew Wilkens
@mattwilkens.bsky.social
Associate professor of Information Science at Cornell.
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New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +
Can Language Models Represent the Past without Anachronism?
Before researchers can use language models to simulate the past, they need to understand the risk of anachronism. We find that prompting a contemporary model with examples of period prose does not pro...
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May 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New preprint from @lauraknelson.bsky.social, @mattwilkens.bsky.social, and myself tests different ways of simulating the past with LLMs. We don't fully answer the title question here—just show that simple strategies based on prompting and fine-tuning are insufficient. +
Cornell UP has a new book series on AI & humanities, "Mechanema." 25-50k words, quick turn-around. I'm not the editor, but happy to make introductions. Hit me up if you have ideas or questions!
February 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Cornell UP has a new book series on AI & humanities, "Mechanema." 25-50k words, quick turn-around. I'm not the editor, but happy to make introductions. Hit me up if you have ideas or questions!
Postdoc in DH at Cornell. Housed in English, but open to all relevant disciplines incl. IS, CSS, and social CS. Applications (letter and CV) due 21 March. Start date July 1 (maybe flexible). Feel free to circulate widely, and to contact me with questions! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746
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February 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Postdoc in DH at Cornell. Housed in English, but open to all relevant disciplines incl. IS, CSS, and social CS. Applications (letter and CV) due 21 March. Start date July 1 (maybe flexible). Feel free to circulate widely, and to contact me with questions! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746
Reposted by Matthew Wilkens
🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨
We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to:
- measure document similarity
- classify texts with zero-shot prompting
We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews.
Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!
We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to:
- measure document similarity
- classify texts with zero-shot prompting
We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews.
Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!
February 14, 2024 at 4:27 PM
🚨New AI for Humanists tutorials just dropped!🚨
We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to:
- measure document similarity
- classify texts with zero-shot prompting
We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews.
Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!
We have new code notebooks for using LLMs to:
- measure document similarity
- classify texts with zero-shot prompting
We explore narrative vs non-narrative texts, historical poetry, ChatGPT poetry, & book reviews.
Tutorial effort led by Greg Yauney!