Yet another note on AI

Greek
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I insert a query like this:

translate into English: ὑφ᾽ ὧν ἐκεῖνοι παρὰ πᾶσαν ἐπιβουλευόμενοι τὴν ὁδὸν

With both google ai and Chatgpt my query starts a conversation. If ai asks for the source, I just type in, for example, “Isocrates 4.148”. Both ai-sites can work with that kind of reference. ai can also handle short questions, for example “what about ὑφ᾽ ὧν?”, and "isn’t this an allusion to Xenophon’s Anabasis?

I ask whatever I’m wondering about. I ask questions like this: “When you parse, are you consulting commentaries, or can you actually read Greek?”

But what about ai making mistakes? I ask ai for references to Smyth and to dictionaries. I ask, “How do we know that the antecedent of X is Y?” So even though ai parsings may elude my understanding at first, I can compare them with standard references.

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90% of the time, AI will just remind you of rules that you’ve forgotten. If it cites a new rule, then ask where it got that rule from. About 6 months ago, it had trouble giving the exact numbers for reference but now it’s doing much better, at least Gemini is, which is the better AI. I learned in 1 month as much about Ancient Greek morphology using AI than I would 4 years using traditional methods, κατα την εμην γνωμην

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hello kylefoley, that’s interesting about using AI for morphology.

Liberation Philology Ancient Greek: this app lets one use wait time in offices, etc., for practicing forms.