Research talk: the highs and lows of artificial intelligence - Melissa Terras

01/05/2023 44 min
Research talk: the highs and lows of artificial intelligence - Melissa Terras

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Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities – the highs and lows of artificial intelligence Host Helen Clare hands over to Paola Marchionni to bring you, ‘Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities’ mini-series Research talk resumes with Paola Marchionni, head of engagement, content and discovery, at Jisc. Over the next six episodes, she and her colleague Peter Findley will take over Research talk to bring you ‘Is AI for me? Perspectives from the humanities’. This mini-series will explore what it means to engage with artificial intelligence in the context of the humanities. They'll bring together research and informational professionals who will share their views, experiences and work to help us understand AI's place in today's humanities scholarship. In this episode, Paola is joined by Melissa Terras, Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh. Melissa has been working at the computational sciences and humanities juncture for over 20 years. Her interests lie in how the tools and techniques from applied computing and engineering can be brought over to humanities subjects, the study of the past, and what the humanities can offer the computational sciences.

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