In honor of Halloween and in an effort to explore the implications of AI, Take on the South is having a special series of "Southern Seances" starting this October. For these "seances", we will have ChatGPT write a script for an interview between our host, Mark Smith, and a famous dead Southerner. Mark and a guest will dissect what AI got right about the figure, where it made mistakes, and what the experience can tell us about the utility and limitations of AI.
First up: Elvis! Mark is joined by Grant Wong, PhD student in the University of South Carolina's History department.