The Guardian - Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2024
University says first owner of book by French novelist took the skin from a deceased female patient without consent Harvard University has said it will be removing the binding made of human skin from a 19th-century book held in its library because of the “ethically fraught nature” of how the unusual binding took place.
Dan Cohen
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Into this landscape a human prompt sets in motion a narrative snowball, which rolls according to the model’s internal physics, gathering words along the way. This is, of course, a recipe for unvaried familiarity, as the angle of the human prompt, like the pool cue, can overdetermine the flow that ensues.
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Dan Cohen
APRIL 7, 2021
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the many datasets we’ve wrestled with this year, it’s that all the data — every single point — is the result of human decision-making. As majors have sharply declined over the last decade, a thousand verbose defenses of the humanities have been published.
Dan Cohen
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Are books, for instance, going to have associated NFTs? She projected forward by looking backward, specifically by finding detailed descriptions of the river and its morphology in old books. Previously covered in Humane Ingenuity : the potent combination of human expertise and AI processing. Scaife, et al.
Dan Cohen
OCTOBER 17, 2022
But then again, it also competently echoed the science fiction book covers of my childhood. The best books are worth reading multiple times, as we discover new elements and are affected differently each time we flip their pages. Subscribe to the Humane Ingenuity newsletter : Enter your email.
HEPI
JUNE 20, 2023
This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Angeliki Lymberopoulou , Senior Lecturer in Art History and Employability lead for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University , and Richard Marsden, Senior Lecturer in History and formerly Director of Teaching for the School of Arts and Humanities at the Open University.
Dan Cohen
JANUARY 24, 2022
Whenever I check out a library book that has been underlined or annotated, I think about the two anonymous students who aggressively marked up Widener Library’s copy of Rollo May’s Man’s Search for Himself : I hope these two students did in fact meet at some point, although they may have been separated by decades.
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