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11 08, 2025

AI helps find the roads to Rome (Pallab Ghosh, BBC News)

By Humanities Watch|2025-08-11T08:17:32-04:00August 11th, 2025|Arts, environment, Europe, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Politics, Religion, STEM|0 Comments

Using AI to puzzle out ancient inscriptions of the history of Rome.

9 08, 2024

Song of the whales (Katherine Latham and Anna Bressanin, BBC Future)

By Humanities Watch|2024-08-09T19:54:07-04:00August 9th, 2024|Academia, environment, Everything Else, Language, Nature, News, STEM, Technology|0 Comments

Patient study of sperm whales' soundings uses AI to discern their language.

24 06, 2024

Language learning in the wild (Guardian, Agence France-Presse)

By Humanities Watch|2024-06-24T16:26:00-04:00June 24th, 2024|Africa, Debate / dialogue, environment, Everything Else, Language, Nature, News, STEM|0 Comments

Researchers gain insight into elephants' individualized communication.

19 01, 2024

Words on the brain (Bill Hathaway, YaleNews)

By Humanities Watch|2024-01-19T15:50:06-05:00January 19th, 2024|Academia, environment, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, science, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How we develop neural pathways of memory from birth.

8 12, 2023

Chatbots and charity

By Humanities Watch|2023-12-12T07:36:32-05:00December 8th, 2023|Academia, education, Everything Else, health, History, Language, Literature, Observations, Philosophy, psychology, STEM, Technology|1 Comment

A conversation about how Chat can heighten anxiety, as students leave off writing by themselves.

2 09, 2023

Anxiously seeking solutions (Julie Wernau and Andrea Petersen, Wall Street Journal)

By Humanities Watch|2023-09-02T19:30:36-04:00September 2nd, 2023|business, Debate / dialogue, environment, Everything Else, History, Language, News, psychology, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

Increased anxiety meets a new industry designed to address it.

12 04, 2023

Chatbot, chatbot, on the wall (Salk News)

By Humanities Watch|2023-04-12T11:51:22-04:00April 12th, 2023|education, Everything Else, Language, News, Philosophy, psychology, science, STEM, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

The chatbot reflects the personality of the questioner.

26 03, 2023

Human intelligence and AI (Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, New York Times)

By Humanities Watch|2023-03-26T11:26:50-04:00March 26th, 2023|Arts, Debate / dialogue, education, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada|0 Comments

How heedlessly promoting AI threatens human language and culture.

29 12, 2022

AI and the digital divide (Stephen Marche, The Atlantic)

By Humanities Watch|2022-12-29T14:20:33-05:00December 29th, 2022|Academia, Debate / dialogue, education, Employment, Everything Else, History, Language, News, Philosophy, STEM, Technology, U.S. / Canada, Writing|0 Comments

Whether the humanities can think about AI and the digital world, and vice-versa.

4 12, 2022

The virtues of Renaissance dialogue (December 15, noon ET)

By Humanities Watch|2022-12-04T13:33:39-05:00December 4th, 2022|0 Comments

How Renaissance thinkers understood dialogue as narrative medicine.