cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/985984
Researchers have unearthed hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets, but many remain untranslated. Translating an ancient language is a time-intensive process, and only a few hundred experts are qualified to perform it. A recent study describes a new AI that produces high-quality translations of ancient texts.
This is super cool. I’ve been thinking about using GPT to try to derive some meaning out of the Voynich manuscript, another one of a thousand projects I want to start