Using AI to do research - Specifically online searching

[Mark Knowles]

For ciphers, I've quite recently run extensive searches using all 4 approaches and I've come up empty unfortunately. There's nothing freely available that you haven't already found. That said, the models are getting better and better, and OpenAI released 5.5 a few days ago which is said to be the best at uncovering information, but the reality is if it's not digitised, it won't find it.

Thanks 

Ed

I must confess that I doubt that there is "nothing freely available that I haven't already found". However, knowing where to look and what to look for is hard.

I agree there is still an issue of digitisation, as many archives don't have their online inventories digitised which is why I was interested in a previous thread in what was the best OCR software as manually reading through long inventories is not realistic. Hopefully improvements in OCR technology may lead to more documents being digitised.