Research project AI in the service of runology
The project's main goal is to create an AI assistant that will find answer a user's questions with help of the Scandinavian Runic database.
![Runstone with glowing grren runes. Made by Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath using AI.](/polopoly_fs/1.734645.1715154331!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/widescreen_690/image.jpg)
AI is an area of computer science that aims to create systems that can perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence. AI has made remarkable progress in the last decade, especially in the field of natural language processing, which is the branch of AI that deals with the understanding and generation of natural language texts. One of the most impressive innovations in natural language processing is the development of large language models. However, LLM is not only a source of innovations and opportunities, but also a source of great challenges. LLM can fabricate facts, resulting in texts that are full of errors or contradictory. This is particularly problematic for research in the humanities. Our project wants to take on the challenge of teaching an AI assistant to deliver answers based exclusively on scientific grounds.
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Project managers
Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath
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