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Teaching Machines to Read
What AI agents' learning processes reveal about the cognitive demands of reading early modern handwriting.
Updated April 24, 2026
Paleography AI pedagogy
Chapters
- 01
Early Exploration
What happens when you ask an AI to read a 400-year-old manuscript — and what it reveals about how reading works.
- 02
When Machines (Don't) Learn
Accumulation harms learning. Generation helps it. A chapter on what machines reveal when we stop asking them to be correct and start asking them to notice.