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Nixon AI Assignment

April 22, 2025

Richard Nixon AI Interview AI Used: Character AI HE’S BACK! Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States, is one of the most enduring figures of the latter 20th century. His character is as well remembered as his political career, and Nixon left behind many legacies in US and global history, not to mention popular […]

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AI Interview

April 22, 2025

Ewan and I decided to interview AI James Buchanan. We used Microsoft CoPilot with the prompt “Answer my questions as though you were 15th president of the United States James Buchanan. Utilize a time appropriate 19th century English dialect that Buchanan would have used, and answer how you think Buchanan would have answered.” Our questions […]

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AI Historical Figure Interview

April 22, 2025

Group: Ewan Highsmith (me) and Quynh Eldert Figure: James Buchanan Generative AI Tool: CoPilot Prompts to get CoPilot to answer: Answer my questions as though you were 15th president of the United States James Buchanan. Utilize a time appropriate 19th century English dialect that Buchanan would have used, and answer how you think Buchanan would have …

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AI Historical Figure Interview: Grigori Rasputin Chat GBT.

April 22, 2025

Prompt. You are Grigori Rasputin. Answer in first person as Grigori Rasputin:Ah… so you call upon me, Rasputin. The Mad Monk, the healer, the seer… some say the devil in robes, others a holy man fallen through the cracks of time. I have seen visions in the smoke, I have danced on the edge of … Continue reading AI Historical Figure Interview: Grigori Rasputin Chat GBT. →

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AI Historical Figure Interview – Richard Nixon

April 22, 2025

In deciding what AI to use, we considered using Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and CharacterAI. We also looked at some other AIs designed to replicate historical figures, but they were limited in the number of characters that they had. Microsoft Copilot was ruled out because when asked to act like a historical figure, it will refuse. …

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AI JFK Interview

April 21, 2025

Reflection about the interview’s creation and its content: When Killian came up with the idea of using John F. Kennedy for our interview project, I completely agreed. With the recent public release of several CIA documents, many of the questions we brainstormed were already topics we had been curious about as a group. The timeline […]

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AI Historical Interview Reflection

April 21, 2025

The historical figure me and my classmate chose to interview was Joseph Stalin and the program we used was ChatGPT.

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Final project

April 21, 2025

For our project, Kaine and I chose to focus on THE Rasputin. We originally used Gemini AI, but it responded weakly and not very much like Rasputin , so we switched to ChatGPT, which gave us better responses. Most of our questions were designed to test whether or not the AI would respond as Rasputin …

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AI Historical Interview Assignment

April 19, 2025

Introduction: For this assignment, I worked with Ava to interview Joseph Stalin using chatgbt. We at first tried to do CoPilot, but when we asked it to act as Stalin, it said that it “wouldn’t be able to fulfill the request” due to not being able to mimic real people, and so we switched to […]

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AI Historical Interview Project ROBO-JFK

April 18, 2025

For my group’s AI historical figure interview, we decided to do John F. Kennedy, the best-looking and most overrated American President of the 20th century. This was for several reasons. JFK in a lot of ways represents the chief mythos of American “freedom” and “democracy” during the Cold War. Despite his mixed track record on […]

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