"It's a cook book!"
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at techxplore.com ...
Imagine that! An A.I. program that supplements and corrects faulty texts! Spell Check on steroids!
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They Kanamit that, it would screw up their plan.
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