A.G. Leventis Inaugural Lecture: Barbara Graziosi

A Humanistic Approach to Artificial Intelligence

This lecture begins with a set of observations made while working on the collaborative project, Logion: Artificial Intelligence for Greek Philology. I consider some philological challenges to Natural Language Processing (e.g. the hapax legomenon; the lectio difficilior; intersubjectivity); and some computational challenges to classical scholarship (e.g. data augmentation; quantitative evaluation; constructions of objectivity). I then build on these observations to consider, more broadly, what may constitute a fruitful humanistic approach to artificial intelligence.