Groundbreaking AI project translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform at push of a button

Times of Israel ^ | 6/16/2023 | Melanie Lidman

[logi_cal869]

Ironic that this was just one consideration when I began contemplating the role of AI years ago.

Fascinating.

[isthisnickcool]

Ai will change a lot of industries like the legal industry and others where the content is fairly finite. Imagine an intelligence that can understand all things legal instantly.

[antidemoncrat]

“Groundbreaking AI project translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform at push of a button”

And it said “Don’t elect Joe Biden”

[SMARTY]

I’d like to know if there is a translation of Etruscan.

[logi_cal869]

They plugged in the texts of the ‘inflation reduction act’ along with ‘covid relief’ and only got a 2-word response:

“Slush fund”

[Rockingham]

One day, as the technology develops further, they may develop a translation program for the ultimate challenge of translating for men what women actually mean when they say something.

[Openurmind]

English to Babylonian translator...

http://www.paleoaliens.com/event/babylonian/Late_Baby.pl

[Rastus]

“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”? A crummy commercial?!

[af_vet_1981]

Neural machine translation

I wonder who came up with this idea in the late 1980s ...

[Buttons12]

What a relief!

Pass the Linear A, please.

[Political Junkie Too]

Now try it on one of Kamala Harris' speeches.

-PJ

[fuzzylogic]

lol - good one.

An impossible task!

[markman46]

never happen...

[bitt]

P

[dfwgator]

BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE

[central_va]

I thought it said “Pharoah says pull my finger”.

[GOPJ]

“We’re post-ChatGPT and we’re in a different world now... Prof. Nathan Wasserman, professor of Assyriology at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (courtesy) Wasserman’s area of expertise is the most complicated and poetic Akkadian texts, including hymns, prayers, and myths, often found on tablets that are in the worst condition and exceptionally difficult to read. His work is not just about translating, but about understanding the context within Akkadian culture and literature, he said. And he is interested in watching the way this technology develops, even if he is not rushing to use it now.

ping

[9422WMR]

What the translation said:
“EAT AT JOES”

[mjp]

so was Zecharia Sitchin right about aliens on Earth?

[BenLurkin]

Well, yes and no....