I’m Sil. I’m a PhD student in Information Science at Cornell University studying under David Mimno and Matthew Wilkens.

What do I study? My goal is to sharpen intuitions on where humans and language models epistemologically diverge. My published research draws on narratology and model interpretability to investigate how LLMs capture cultural concepts in areas like jurisprudence, journalism, and storytelling.

Want to connect? Reach out to me on Bluesky, email, and LinkedIn. I’m also on Libera and OFTC as srhm.

CV

Courses

2023 Knight Center Generative AI For Journalists
2023 Knight Center How to use ChatGPT and other generative AI tools in your newsrooms

Interviews

2023/08 Brevity Blog The Future of CNF Writing, Editing and Publishing in a World with AI
2023/05 Heidi Pitlor Editorial ChatGPT, Writers, and Publishing: Should You Worry?

Media

2023/12 Tech and the Future of News AI Needs Journalism More Than Journalism Needs AI
2023/09 Wired Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
2023/08 Broadband Breakfast Newsrooms Should Engage Responsibly with Artificial Intelligence, Say Journalists
2023/08 LatAm Journalism Review ChatGPT will not take our jobs, but it’s essential to experiment and learn about this technology, say experts in webinar
2022/12 Futurity AI Can Reveal Hidden Biases in News Media
2022/12 Le Devoir L’IA rendra-t-elle les médias plus objectifs?
2022/12 The Financial Times ChatGPT is less wowed by itself than we are
2022/12 McGill Channels What AI-generated COVID news tells us that journalists don’t

Posts

2023/12 Early efforts in Artificial Intelligence
2023/03 Dynamic Embeddings
2022/10 A foundation model for literature
2022/09 Super Readers, Superreaders
2022/05 Carnap and symbolic spaces
2022/04 Neuroesthetics and the Macy conferences
2022/03 Wittgenstein and linguistic relativism
2022/03 Wittgenstein and Searle's Chinese room
2022/01 Cognition through language
2021/04 Visiting the Trynwâlden
2021/03 Mapping ADS-B signals

Presentations

2024/04 ISOJ AI in journalism: Ethics, opportunities and pitfalls
2023/11 Baltic Media Forum Artificial Intelligence in Modern Media Organizations
2023/11 Vilnius University Open Lecture by Sil Hamilton
2023/10 UNLV Digital Humanities 2.0
2023/10 Media Party Prometheus: Local News for Local AI
2023/09 Kennedy Space Center How AI, Digital Health, & Technology Is Shaping Global Health & Humanitarian Relief
2023/08 Knight Center What Journalists Need To Know About ChatGPT and Other Tools
2023/06 Computer History Museum Mind the Gap: How Newsrooms Can Bridge the AI Moat
2023/05 CS50 GPT-4 - How does it work, and how do I build apps with it?
2023/05 Nieman Foundation The Present State: Generative AI
2023/02 McGill Library Parallel Worlds: How To Generate Useful Data with AI
2022/10 SLSA Superreaders: Recognizing The Value Of Literate Language Models

Projects

DocPlot semantic search in the browser, privately.
COVID-17 showcasing a counterfactual COVID narrative.
semantic-space for generating thesauruses from latent space.
adsb-utils for mapping ADS-B packets offline.
feature-space-explorer for plotting sentence embeddings in n-dimensions.

Publications

2024/03 SCALE-LLM Detecting Mode Collapse in Language Models via Narration
2023/07 WNU Mrs. Dalloway Said She Would Segment the Chapters Herself
2023/02 Creative AI Blind Judgement: Agent-Based Supreme Court Modelling with GPT
2023/01 JOHD MultiHATHI: A Complete Collection of Multilingual Prose Fiction in the HathiTrust Digital Library
2022/10 SIGHUM The COVID That Wasn’t: Counterfactual Journalism using GPT

Workshops

2023/10 Media Party Run LLMs On Your Laptop
2023/05 Brown Institute Workshop and Mixer on ChatGPT