Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

A student, as part of a contest, used a machine-learning algorithm and CT scans to analyse on closed scrolls, buried by Mount Vesuvius in October AD 79. The breakthrough could unlock the contents of hundreds of never-before-seen writings.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      We can see how it makes the translation and verify that it’s making accurate judgements based on the data it’s being fed. We can check the AI against controls too, other scrolls that we know what they say already and feed it data on them until it gets very accurate on those ones. Then apply that model to these unknown scrolls.

    • Jimmycakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      We already know the language that’s not what they are saying, this is reading the inside the rolled up scroll that’s too fragile to unroll so we don’t know what was in there