This is such a thorough and deep dive! I wish tools like this had been around when I was in school. Everything is explained so clearly, with solid reasoning, and your notation is super clean and easy to follow too.
I feel I understand the first three points, but don't fully grasp point four and what the barrier is to attempting to come up with comparisons between the two texts yourself, even if your understanding of one of the texts is based on the AI translation and analysis. Though maybe I'm neglecting the student angle here, but it still feels a bit like using AI as a short cut past taking the time to think about things and come to your own conclusions.
I enjoy thinking of parallels and points of comparison and contrast between wildly different works, so I wouldn't want to pass up a chance to contemplate it myself. I'd rather write a post myself comparing Anthy Himemiya from Revolutionary Girl Utena to Nora Roberts from A Doll's House than ask AI to do the thinking about comparing them. But maybe if you're curious about parallels with something you know of but haven't read yet there's a use case.
With my own hobbyist research into Aztec mythology I've found plenty of information in books that seems completely absent from the English speaking internet (until I talk about it), so I wonder if AI would be as useful for studies of Aztec culture. There is one notable translation detail in the Florentine Codex I've always been suspicious of that this post is inspiring me to test an AI investigation with, so I'll start from there and see how it pans out.
That's actually a really good point - and, honestly, the example in the fourth point is only something I came up with because I'm familiar with both works. It's probably closer to your Anthy - Nora comparison than it seems. Honestly — if you just went to ChatGPT or DeepSeek or whatever and asked it to give literary parallels to some random work, it would likely give you a very surface level comparison. You'd likely have to prod deeper to get it to respond the way you want it to, which would require you to actually read the work int he first place.
Maybe we could say that AI could help expand things you already know - or maybe find areas for comparison that you didn't think of.
I do suspect that AI could help with your research into Aztec mythology. Let me know how it goes!
This is such a thorough and deep dive! I wish tools like this had been around when I was in school. Everything is explained so clearly, with solid reasoning, and your notation is super clean and easy to follow too.
Thanks! Yeah - this is a lot more fun to follow than any of the lectures I remember attending in college, haha.
I feel I understand the first three points, but don't fully grasp point four and what the barrier is to attempting to come up with comparisons between the two texts yourself, even if your understanding of one of the texts is based on the AI translation and analysis. Though maybe I'm neglecting the student angle here, but it still feels a bit like using AI as a short cut past taking the time to think about things and come to your own conclusions.
I enjoy thinking of parallels and points of comparison and contrast between wildly different works, so I wouldn't want to pass up a chance to contemplate it myself. I'd rather write a post myself comparing Anthy Himemiya from Revolutionary Girl Utena to Nora Roberts from A Doll's House than ask AI to do the thinking about comparing them. But maybe if you're curious about parallels with something you know of but haven't read yet there's a use case.
With my own hobbyist research into Aztec mythology I've found plenty of information in books that seems completely absent from the English speaking internet (until I talk about it), so I wonder if AI would be as useful for studies of Aztec culture. There is one notable translation detail in the Florentine Codex I've always been suspicious of that this post is inspiring me to test an AI investigation with, so I'll start from there and see how it pans out.
That's actually a really good point - and, honestly, the example in the fourth point is only something I came up with because I'm familiar with both works. It's probably closer to your Anthy - Nora comparison than it seems. Honestly — if you just went to ChatGPT or DeepSeek or whatever and asked it to give literary parallels to some random work, it would likely give you a very surface level comparison. You'd likely have to prod deeper to get it to respond the way you want it to, which would require you to actually read the work int he first place.
Maybe we could say that AI could help expand things you already know - or maybe find areas for comparison that you didn't think of.
I do suspect that AI could help with your research into Aztec mythology. Let me know how it goes!