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Wednesday, Mar. 12, 2025 5 p.m.
Digital Humanities Series, Daniel Veidlinger: "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Humanities," Wednesday, March 12th, 5:00 PM, ZOOM Zoom Link: https://csuchico.zoom.us/j/88561594318?pwd=MW5CZHpVRHUyOERSRW1WOVpOc09rZz09 This talk will explore how Artificial Intelligence works and what the implications of this revolutionary technology may be for the Humanities. We will examine the potential disruptions that Artificial Intelligence could cause in this field and explore solutions to these problems. We will talk about what AI actually is and perhaps more importantly, what it is not. We will explore questions such as: how will it affect academic integrity, how will it affect research and the production of creative and scholarly works, from where does it get its information? We will end with a discussion of what, if anything, we can do about it. Daniel Veidlinger is chair of the department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico. He focuses on questions of Buddhism and Technology and is the editor of Digital Humanities and Buddhism: An Introduction ( De Gruyter, 2019 ) as well as The Pixel in the Lotus: Buddhism, The Internet and Digital Media ( Routledge, 2015). He is also the author of From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication, Technology and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas ( Hawaii, 2018). Veidlinger teaches a course on Digital Humanities as part of the Humanities program at Chico and has written and lectured widely about the effects of technology on religious developments and culture more generally. He has also consulted about machine learning, artificial intelligence and database management and developed an early algorithm that helped computers to learn the meaning of words using a detailed ontology. The Digital Humanities Series is open to the public.
Director: Erin K. Kelly
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