Super interesting; I have been experimenting with AI image creator to create visualizations of Early Modern events & objects that have been lost to the record. One of those was a demonological-themed entertainment for Francesco I de' Medici from the same era as this text. Thanks so much for this post!
Oh interesting! Keep me posted about this. I don't think the current tools for AI image generation are really there yet in terms of being able to accurately reconstruct anything, but I suspect that will change in in the coming years. Wouldn't it be fascinating to be able to convert a woodcut engraving into a photorealistic image for instance?
Yes, you are spot on about the limitations, but if I could feed an AI specific info about the artists, architects, historically accurate costumes, etc. it would be a dream and I don't see why that would not be eventually possible. Thanks so much for writing back, you prompted me to put down my forays into AI as a proper post that cites you too:
Very interesting! To me, AI-translations are particularly useful to make sense of automatic transcriptions done via Handwritten Text Recognition, which are often even more garbled than OCR texts. I sometimes use it to check Dutch documents, such as Amsterdam’s Notarial Records or the WIC documents. I even told wrote to David saying that after reading his substack post.
(I read your first book last year for a paper I’m writing on Brazilian tobacco, by the way. Congrats!)
demons love precious stones because for them it is a storehouse. Pokeball. Which will most likely fall into the right hands. And is a pure source of energy storage. In my opinion
Super interesting; I have been experimenting with AI image creator to create visualizations of Early Modern events & objects that have been lost to the record. One of those was a demonological-themed entertainment for Francesco I de' Medici from the same era as this text. Thanks so much for this post!
Oh interesting! Keep me posted about this. I don't think the current tools for AI image generation are really there yet in terms of being able to accurately reconstruct anything, but I suspect that will change in in the coming years. Wouldn't it be fascinating to be able to convert a woodcut engraving into a photorealistic image for instance?
Yes, you are spot on about the limitations, but if I could feed an AI specific info about the artists, architects, historically accurate costumes, etc. it would be a dream and I don't see why that would not be eventually possible. Thanks so much for writing back, you prompted me to put down my forays into AI as a proper post that cites you too:
https://open.substack.com/pub/lilyfilsonphd/p/testing-the-ai-waters?r=b7tt&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
All the best and thanks again for sharing your knowledge on here.
Nice! Looking forward to your book
Thank you!
Hola, soy nuevo y me gusta leer este tipo de cosas. Gracias fue muy interesante. Soy de Colombia.
Very interesting! To me, AI-translations are particularly useful to make sense of automatic transcriptions done via Handwritten Text Recognition, which are often even more garbled than OCR texts. I sometimes use it to check Dutch documents, such as Amsterdam’s Notarial Records or the WIC documents. I even told wrote to David saying that after reading his substack post.
(I read your first book last year for a paper I’m writing on Brazilian tobacco, by the way. Congrats!)
Interesting how it would do with Voynich manuscript :))
demons love precious stones because for them it is a storehouse. Pokeball. Which will most likely fall into the right hands. And is a pure source of energy storage. In my opinion