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Oct. 4, 2023, 1:49 a.m. |

Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net

Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude


UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen puts LLMs to work on historical texts. They do an impressive job of translating flaky OCRd text from 1599 Latin and 1707 Portuguese.

"It’s not about getting the AI to replace you. Instead, it’s asking the AI to act as a kind of polymathic research assistant to supply you with leads."


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