Thinking Forwards: Collaboration | Unlocking 18th-Century Playbills with AI

How can innovative AI methods for information retrieval aid the digitization of large historical datasets? Equally, how can the intricacies of 18th- and 19th-century print corpora help to reveal the shortcomings and implicit cultural biases embedded in AI models? In this talk, we’ll discuss our attempts to use large language models to analyse performance data…