Support #19605
openAI question from Ned Benton
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Ned Benton asks:
nbenton@jjay.cuny.edu | January 26, 2024 9:20 am
Will CUNY Commons install any plug-ins that connect to AI services. I am thinking of this one but there may be others.
https://wordpress.com/plugins/ai-engine
I have posted in NESRI an article about AI and slavery records. Here it is.
https://nesri.commons.gc.cuny.edu/artificial-intelligence-and-slavery-research/
While this article reveals risks and deficiencies, I continue to think that AI could become a useful way to explain records of slavery at the individual level. We are working on a project we call NESRI 2.0 which involves adding several more fields to will enrich the interconnections between the 90,000 records that we have.
If we eventually do this system-wide, we have the challenge of presenting this to users. I first approach is to add a table to our locality reports that lists the families, in the locality specified for the report, with a link to click into the records of any family, so people in Boston can learn of families of enslaved people in the 1700s. But I also think that I can code the database to construct a test string that can be submitted as a prompt to an AI service to get back an essay about the family - the names and relationships and events in their lives and in the community when they lived. The service would have to have guardrails to not make up information.
Ned Benton