This restored inscription (IG I3 4B) records a decree concerning the Acropolis of Athens and dates 485/4 BCE. Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0, WikiMedia
Posted on 03/14/2022 5:22:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
A team of AI researchers at DeepMind, working with colleagues from the University of Venice, the University of Oxford and Athens University of Economics and Business, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) application to help historians fill in the gaps of text missing from stone, metal or pottery artifacts...
During certain points in history, humans began using written text for purposes such as keeping accounts. Such accounts can give modern scholars clues as to how people in ancient societies went about their days. But that is only if the artifacts can be deciphered. Many have been eroded by weather or have been broken and are missing pieces... This is almost always a long and tedious process... The result was Ithaca, a machine-learning application that learns from other ancient texts to predict missing text.
The researchers trained the application using 60,000 Greek texts from the years 700BC to 500AD. Each had already been extensively studied and reconstructed when necessary. The team then ran the app on the same texts prior to reconstruction. They then trained the app on another 8,000 well-studied texts to test it against the work done by human experts. The researchers found the system to be 62% accurate, which was better than the performance of historians. But the best results came from collaborations between the AI system and the historians; together, they were able to achieve 72% accuracy.
The researchers also added another feature—the ability to attribute a text to a time and place using clues found in the text and from other sources. They found the system to be 71% accurate in determining the origin of the writer and could place the date of writing to within 30 years, on average.
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Thanks Red Badger.
What we need is AI to comment on current events as Rush. There is 30 years worth of data to teach such a system.
My son is in A.I.
He was working on Covid cures when Covid started.
I asked him how much science did you have in college, knowing he was a computer science in undergrad.
He said “1 class of biochemistry. You don’t need to know any science to do this”
I don’t get A.I.
A.I. does amazing things; the problem is, you can’t tell if they are amazing truths, or amazing B.S.
Wonderful! I work with old texts in por condition occasionally and I could certainly see this being helpful.
You’ll get A.I.
Just step on something sharp with your bare feet. ;)
😆
It would be cool if AI could fill in the missing books of Tacitus' Annals.
How do you know you achieve 72% accuracy if you do not know what constitutes 100% accuracy?
Doughnut holes? That’s just a bag of air!
They used a lot of texts, many of which had already been figured out the old fashioned human way.
Read later.
62% is lower than 65%
A 62 is an “F” grade.
I give these idiots and their AI an “F”.
They should all go to Las Vegas and predict the down cards of the who!e table.
It’s a bunch of BS because all the authors are ded.
It’s not a class, and they’re not idiots.
The 3D non-invasive tech they use now to read the scrolls from Herculaneum, and the alt spectral scans of old ones (I think the Oxyrhynchus Papyri are an example) have really recovered a lot of ancient texts. I wish the Herculaneum stuff were something other than epicurian philosophy. :^)
A lot of people confuse AI with an expert system. This sounds like an expert system to me.
AI to fill in missing texts.
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Well, IA is the Great I AM.
I prefer IA over AI.
Then what are you doing in a science topic?
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