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The Age of Books and the Age of Brainrot
A semi-optimistic take on the future of reading and thinking
Oct 2
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Benjamin Breen
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All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning
The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
Aug 13
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Benjamin Breen
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OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery
Serious learning requires friction, frustration... and other humans
Jul 31
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Benjamin Breen
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AI makes the humanities more important, but also a lot weirder
Historians are finally having their AI debate
May 7
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Benjamin Breen
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When Jorge Luis Borges met one of the founders of AI
One reason I became a historian is the joy of encountering moments in the past that are foreign, yet also oddly familiar.
Apr 2
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Benjamin Breen
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AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research
A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
Mar 5
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Benjamin Breen
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The familiar loneliness of the Kinetoscope
One other way that the 2020s resemble the 1890s
Feb 5
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Benjamin Breen
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The leading AI models are now good historians
... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
Jan 22
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Benjamin Breen
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Post-postal
What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?
Oct 23, 2024
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Benjamin Breen
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LLM-based educational games will be a big deal
For the first time, digital games can make qualitative assessments of learning. Here's what that might look like.
May 14, 2024
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Benjamin Breen
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"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
Mar 19, 2024
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Benjamin Breen
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Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators
Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
Dec 12, 2023
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Benjamin Breen
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