January 19, 2023

By Louis DiPietro

Trained on vast amounts of mined online text, artificial intelligence (AI) now knows human language well enough to auto-fill our sentences when drafting emails, power chatbots to help online customers, and pen prose that could pass for a human’s. 

Cornell researchers want to know what sort of insights AI will unearth when leveraged for the humanities and are equipping scholars in those fields with machine learning skills to do just that.