Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How are you using AI in your research and which AI tool are you using?

I've just used ChatGPT to transcribe a letter, it wasn't that I couldn't read it but I wanted to copy the contents to add into the notes as it proved what happened to the father.

Here's what I uploaded, and this is what ChatGPT responded with:


No. 1 Dispersal Unit,
6th FEB. 1919
CLIPSTONE.

Joseph Street,
Blackburn
Feb. 3rd 1919

Dear Sir or Sirs,

Having already forwarded an application for Demobilisation to which has been appended certain declarations in support of the same, I desire to call attention to the domestic side of the appeal.

My Mother, in my absence, is almost without support, there being left at home my younger Brother only, from whom the support to the home is practically nil. The support that has been forthcoming from my Father (who has served in the Australian Forces for three years and is now invalided to Australia) has been entirely withdrawn, leaving the home income a matter of precarity and great anxiety. Added to the above is the fact that my training and prospects as an Engineering Student are being seriously impaired. In view of these considerations, I sincerely trust you may be able to grant me a speedy demobilisation.

I remain
Yours sincerely,
Pte. G. Paton
(signature follows)

P.T.O. (Please Turn Over)

How have you used AI to help you in your research, let's share how we use this technology.

 

I'm hoping that AI will be better than me at transcribing pages from early parish registers and wills, but so far I've been disappointed.

The newsletter I'm currently writing has some articles about the use of AI in genealogy - one of them written by an AI.