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

    06/17/2023 9:57:44 AM PDT · by logi_cal869 · 25 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 6/16/2023 | Melanie Lidman
    Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing, but it is so difficult to read that only a few hundred experts around the world can decode the clay tablets filled with wedge-shaped symbols. Now, a team of archaeologists and computer scientists from Israel has created an AI-powered translation program for ancient Akkadian cuneiform, allowing tens of thousands of already digitized tablets to be translated into English instantaneously. Globally, libraries, museums, and universities have more than half a million clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform. But the sheer number of texts, and the tiny number of Akkadian readers — a language no...