<div dir="ltr">To build on Paul's comment: When I worked at IBM in those years when spreadsheets went into wide use I noticed quickly that many young employees believed literally what the spreadsheets displayed on their screens to a far greater extent than, say, accountants and others who were aged 40s or 50s. I was one of the latter and on occasion I would see something displayed, or later displayed on a Powerpoint presentation, that did not intuitively seem right and I would challenge the data. That would force a conversation about formulas, assumptions, quality and quantity of the statistical inputs, etc. and then possible alterations in the findings. <div><br></div><div>This was not a new occurrence. It seems every time we encounter a new IT application or tool we have to learn how to use it, improve its performance, then learn where and when to apply it. I suspect that experience affected early users of hammers, tooh picks, and microwave ovens.</div><div><br></div><div>Jim</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM Ceruzzi, Paul via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7996956233842301932">
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This has happened before: the embrace of spreadsheets like Lotus 1-2-3 by users who were seduced by their power on a PC desktop may have led to the financial excesses of the late 1990s.</div>
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<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45869772_Spreadsheets_and_the_Financial_Collapse" id="m_-7996956233842301932LPlnk909300" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45869772_Spreadsheets_and_the_Financial_Collapse</a></div>
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<div id="m_-7996956233842301932divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Brian E Carpenter <<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 7, 2025 5:00 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Troy Astarte <<a href="mailto:t.k.astarte@swansea.ac.uk" target="_blank">t.k.astarte@swansea.ac.uk</a>>; Ceruzzi, Paul <<a href="mailto:CeruzziP@si.edu" target="_blank">CeruzziP@si.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sigcis <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank">members@sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Perplexity, or ML tools in historical research</font>
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<div>External Email - Exercise Caution<br>
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Cherry-picking one sentence from Troy:<br>
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> What I have not found so far is whether there is any requirement to declare the use of ML-based tools in their research.<br>
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Since Google now starts with an "AI summary", even Google searches would need to be declared under such a rule.<br>
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(Try googling "Does Google AI hallucinate?")<br>
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DuckDuckGo is heading in the same direction, but more carefully: <a href="https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/" target="_blank">
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Brian Carpenter<br>
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