Welcome to EasyAI!

This book is an introduction to the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) designed specifically for readers in the humanities. If you are a translator, journalist, linguist, or simply interested in understanding more about AI, this book is for you. We have designed EasyAI to be easy to read and understand, with no prior knowledge of math or computer science required. Through a combination of clear explanations and visual illustrations, we will introduce you to the main concepts of AI and show you how it is changing the world around us with a particular focus on the domain of language. Whether you are new to AI or simply looking to learn more, EasyAI has something to offer.

It is important to note that the book is an ongoing project and is being constantly updated. As such, existing chapters will be expanded and new chapters will be added.

Suggested Citation

Claudio Fantinuoli, EasyAI - Introducing Artificial Intelligence to the Humanities, Version 1 (2023), Last updated: 7 Jan 2023

Artificial Intelligence

Natural Language Processing

Language Technologies

Topics

Introduction

• Preface
• How to use this book

Artificial Intelligence

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Emergent behaviors
• Multimodal Machine Learning
• Machine Bias

Natural Language Processing

• What is NLP
• Language Models

Language Technologies

• Interacting with a language model
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Machine Translation
• Machine Interpreting
• Improving texts
• Using facial emotion recognition to improve NLP tasks
• Augmenting professional interpreters

The words of AI

• Index

Team

• Author: Dr. Claudio Fantinuoli

• Collaborators: Clara Nowak, Katharina Becher

Project initially financed by GLK Mainz University