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Screenshot of resobscura.substack.com: Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo (resobscura.substack.com)

206 points by benbreen 24 days ago | 64 comments

Res Obscura Substack post by Benjamin Breen on using the Opus 5.5 AI model to find a previously unknown eyewitness account of the dodo.

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Screenshot of resobscura.substack.com: Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)

160 points by benbreen 1 month ago | 38 comments

A Res Obscura Substack post by historian Benjamin Breen arguing AI labs should fund historical research, with examples of using frontier LLMs to trace alchemy and decode 17th-century letters.

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Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo(resobscura.substack.com)

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters(resobscura.substack.com)

Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo (resobscura.substack.com)

Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters (resobscura.substack.com)