ChatGPT Browse with Bing is Back, Albeit a Tad Lobotomized

Reintroduction with Restrictions: ChatGPT Browse with Bing returns with enhanced guardrails after initial misuse concerns. Performance Trade-offs: The updated ChatGPT Browse with Bing has more limited capabilities, affecting its speed and efficiency. AI Interaction Tips: Engaging with AI as if it were sentient might yield better results, though it's symbolic speech. It's been a busy … Continue reading ChatGPT Browse with Bing is Back, Albeit a Tad Lobotomized →

Empowering Genealogists with AI: Presentation to National Genealogical Society (NGS)

First-time visitors: If the topic of AI-assisted genealogy is of interest to you, you can subscribe to the right to receive notice of new posts at AI Genealogy Insights. And Welcome! - Steve I gave a presentation titled "Empowering Genealogists with AI" to the National Genealogical Society on September 6, 2023. The talk covered emerging … Continue reading Empowering Genealogists with AI: Presentation to National Genealogical Society (NGS) →

Crafting a Genealogy Prompt for ChatGPT: Five Valuable Components

The post was prepared as part of my upcoming talk: The National Genealogical Society is hosting a MemberConnects! event on Empowering Genealogists with Artificial Intelligence. Join us Wed. 6 Sept 2023, at 8 p.m. ET. Register here: https://bit.ly/NGSMemberConnects6Sept2023 As we venture deeper into the digital age, the intersection of genealogy and artificial intelligence (AI) is … Continue reading Crafting a Genealogy Prompt for ChatGPT: Five Valuable Components →

A (Possible) Future of A.I. Genealogy Research: Open Archives and ChatGPT

UPDATE: Shortly after sharing this post, Bob Coret, the creator of the "Open Archives" plugin (and a founder of the site), got in touch. The "Open Source" plugin in more impressive than my cursory exploration revealed. The plugin is more thoroughly documented at his blog post, which is linked at bottom along with further observations. … Continue reading A (Possible) Future of A.I. Genealogy Research: Open Archives and ChatGPT →

Using ChatGPT Plugins for Genealogy

What they are, where to get them, why use them, and how to use them: Using the AskYourPDF plugin as an in-depth example I. Introduction: Plugins: What, why, where, & how [NOTE: For clarification: the plugin features discussed in this post require a ChatGPT Plus subscription. At $20/month, you gain access not just to GPT-4 … Continue reading Using ChatGPT Plugins for Genealogy →

AI Genealogy Use Case Guide: How-to Get from Story to Structured Data, 2: Create GEDCOM (family tree) files from obits, articles, & announcements

Go directly to the step-by-step walk-through. This detailed how-to is a follow-up to the use case announcement from March 17, 2023 titled “Using ChatGPT to Write Stories from Family Trees, Create Trees from Stories“. This is Use Case Guide #3 and builds upon: Use Case Guide #1: How to Clean Raw and Poor OCR Text, … Continue reading AI Genealogy Use Case Guide: How-to Get from Story to Structured Data, 2: Create GEDCOM (family tree) files from obits, articles, & announcements →

AI Genealogy Use Case Guide: How-to Get from Story to Structured Data, 1: from Text to Table Data, from Stories to CSV files

Go directly to the step-by-step walk-through. This detailed how-to is a follow-up to the use case announcement from March 22, 2023 titled "Using ChatGPT to Glean Info from Obits, Articles, and Announcements". This is Use Case Guide #2 and builds upon Use Case Guide #1: How to Clean Raw and Poor OCR Text. This Use … Continue reading AI Genealogy Use Case Guide: How-to Get from Story to Structured Data, 1: from Text to Table Data, from Stories to CSV files →

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Welcome to AI Genealogy Insights, where we explore how artificial intelligence can assist genealogists and family history researchers, with a particular focus on: discovering the advantages and limitations of AI, and how genealogists can apply this knowledge. As someone with training and a background in applied linguistics (natural language processing and computation linguistics--foundations of artificial … Continue reading Hello world! →