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Large Language Models based on historical text could offer informative tools for behavioral science

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: By training them on various types of historical texts and records, LLMs could help scholars better grasp the mentality of ancient peoples during major historical events.Here, Pericles gives a famous speech around 430 BC, a year after the start of the Peloponnesian War.Image credit: Shutterstock/vkilikov.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2407639121

Authors: Michael E. W. Varnum, Nicolas Baumard, Mohammad Atari, Kurt Gray

Institutions: Arizona State University, École Normale Supérieure - PSL, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Digital Humanities and Scholarship

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4403243536

FWCI: 134.9

Cites: 24

Cited by: 30

Related to: 10