Researchers use AI to unlock the secrets of ancient texts

Techxplore ^ | August 3, 2021 | University of Notre Dame

[SunkenCiv]

Good question. I’ve often wondered how many remain to be translated, I don’t think it’s a large percentage, and those in the best shape have probably already been done for a long while.

[PIF]

Are you claiming that everything printed after 1980 is available online?
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No silly, just as a rule of thumb - somethings were digitized of course after 1981 up until say, as a rule, 2000, but by no means everything before 1980 because there was no internet and trolls were unknown - other than those that live under bridges.

Stop this pickiness, its a waste of time.

[alexander_busek]

No silly, just as a rule of thumb - somethings were digitized of course after 1981 up until say, as a rule, 2000, but by no means everything before 1980 because there was no internet and trolls were unknown - other than those that live under bridges. Stop this pickiness, its a waste of time.

Your initial remark was addressed to me, and appeared to be lecturing me on the fact that "old" meant "before 1980" - although my prior comments (to which you were ostensibly responding) ought to have indicated that I was already familiar with such facts and so didn't need lecturing.

Regards,

[PIF]

- other than those that live under bridges. Stop this pickiness, its a waste of time.

[wildbill]

There is such room for this meme to be explored in a fiction novel. Because of prior commitments and priorities, I simply don’t have the time left to me to do it.

I hope someone will see the potential and run with it.

[linMcHlp]

Translation is where AI has some value, if truthful - carefully quadruple-checked.