NLG veteran Ehud Reiter blogs advice for humanities scholars on using AI and NLP
EhudReiter · x · 2026-10-22
Aberdeen professor and NLG veteran Ehud Reiter publishes a new blog post distilling advice he gave to humanities (rabbinic scholars) audiences at a workshop on AI for Talmudic research. Key points: be skeptical and spot-check AI output rather than being wowed by Claude demos; and the deep evaluation problem when no gold-standard truth exists — e.g., disambiguating which 'Rabbi Hanan' a 1500-year-old commentary refers to, where even 2026 experts sometimes disagree, meaning evaluating only on consensus cases biases results. Written for non-CS readers but with broadly useful methodological takeaways.
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