From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries.
Ai is actually incredibly useful here due to the shear amount of texts and the human man power that would be requiered to decipher them. The AI can help historians identify texts that could have valuable information so that they may study them further. Most of these undeciphered tablets contain almost 0 valuable historical information so this improves the search a lot
My favorite pharaoh is Bing Butankhamun.
Ai is actually incredibly useful here due to the shear amount of texts and the human man power that would be requiered to decipher them. The AI can help historians identify texts that could have valuable information so that they may study them further. Most of these undeciphered tablets contain almost 0 valuable historical information so this improves the search a lot
they’re not using LLMs to decipher ancient texts…