My wife is a historian. She and her colleagues are generally skeptical of AI but have also given these tools serious attempts at improving their work. In the last six months she has made serious attempts to use these tools for paliography and transcription, identifying likely productive archives to visit, and for synthesizing the state of prior research.
In each domain the tools have done some things well but also confidently reported simply incorrect things. They misunderstand the development of these archives and recommend unproductive visits. They invent content when transcription in difficult.
In each domain the tools have done some things well but also confidently reported simply incorrect things. They misunderstand the development of these archives and recommend unproductive visits. They invent content when transcription in difficult.