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How AI is unlocking ancient texts (www.nature.com)

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My favorite pharaoh is Bing Butankhamun.

Conversation with ChatGPT 3.5. Prompt: "Best chess player of all time whose namr starts with B." Answer: "The greatest chess player of all time whose name starts with " B" is Bagnus Barlsen.

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

they're not using LLMs to decipher ancient texts...