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Here are some of the tangible resources that where mentioned and referenced:</p><ul><li>A deep-learning-based “search engine” for Archaeologists<ul><li>News article: <a href=https://phys.org/news/2022-02-google-archaeologists.html>https://phys.org/news/2022-02-google-archaeologists.html</a></li><li>Dashboard: <a href=https://agnessearch.nl>https://agnessearch.nl</a></li><li>Thesis: <a href=https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3274287>https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3274287</a></li></ul></li><li>Stephen Wolfram’s explanation of the inner workings of LLMs<ul><li>Blog post: <a href=https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work>https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work</a></li></ul></li><li>Jean-Claude Gardin, one of the founders of archaeological computing, and his struggle with archaeological expert systems<ul><li>A summary of his theoretical work: <a href=https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9241-3>https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-015-9241-3</a></li></ul></li><li>A postdoctoral fellowship to support the understanding of AI in the social sciences and humanities<ul><li>Call for submissions: <a href=https://apply.sloan.org/prog/call_for_submissions_metascience_and_ai_postdoctoral_fellowship>https://apply.sloan.org/prog/call_for_submissions_metascience_and_ai_postdoctoral_fellowship</a></li></ul></li></ul><p>The topics raised in the discussion included the misleading semblance of objectivity projected by LLMs (linked to long-standing divides in archaeological theory about positivism), how AI applications may be a strong and convincing argument for Open Data in archaeology, and different levels of transparency in Open Source AI models.</p><p>Multiple SIG members were inspired by this discussion:</p><ul><li>See the CAA/SSLA chat at <a href=https://matrix.to/#/#caa-ssla:archaeo.social>https://matrix.to/#/#caa-ssla:archaeo.social</a> for an AI-related project outline proposed by Zack Batist</li><li>We decided to invite knowledgeable colleagues to talk about AI (and scripting languages?) in our presentation format. Martin Hinz has already send out multiple emails to invite potential speakers.</li></ul><h2 id=tfqa-project>TFQA project</h2><p>In this meeting we spent little time on the SIG’s ongoing TFQA project. But James Allison, Lisa Steinmann, and Joe Roe recently made good progress on that. See the CAA/SSLA chat and various open and already closed pull requests in the <a href=https://github.com/jallison7/LDen>https://github.com/jallison7/LDen</a> repository.</p><h2 id=next-sig-meeting-wednesday-april-4-2025>Next SIG Meeting: Wednesday, April 4, 2025</h2></div><footer class=content__footer></footer></section><section class=page__aside><div class=aside__about><div class=aside__about><img class=about__logo src=https://sslarch.github.io/images/sig_ssla_logo.svg alt=Logo><h1 class=about__title>Scientific Scripting Languages in Archaeology</h1><p class=about__description>A special interest group of <a href=https://caa-international.org/>CAA International</a> dedicated to scientific scripting languages in archaeology.</p></div><ul class=aside__social-links><li><a href=https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/scientific-scripting-languages-in-archaeology rel=me aria-label="Mailing list" title="Mailing list"><i class="fas fa-envelope" aria-hidden=true></i></a> </li><li><a href=https://github.com/sslarch rel=me aria-label="GitHub organisation" title="GitHub organisation"><i class="fab fa-github" aria-hidden=true></i></a> </li><li><a href=https://archaeo.social/@CAA_SSLA rel=me aria-label="Toot @CAA_SSLA" title="Toot @CAA_SSLA"><i class="fab fa-mastodon" aria-hidden=true></i></a> </li><li><a href=https://twitter.com/caa_ssla rel=me aria-label="Tweet @caa_ssla" title="Tweet @caa_ssla"><i class="fab fa-twitter" aria-hidden=true></i></a> </li></ul></div><hr><div class=aside__content><p>2025-03-07</p></div></section><footer class=page__footer><p><br><span class=active>$ echo $LANG<br><b></b></span><br></p><br><br><p class=copyright></p><p class=advertisement>Powered by <a href=https://gohugo.io/>hugo</a> and <a href=https://github.com/joeroe/risotto>risotto</a>.</p></footer></div></body></html>
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