Google unveiled an AI tool that can decipher ancient texts

Google's British company DeepMind has unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool capable of deciphering and contextualizing ancient texts, including Latin inscriptions from the ancient Roman era. This is reported by  Independent, writes UNN.

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It is noted that the new AI called Aeneas can become a transformative tool that will help historians expand our understanding of the past, Google said.

Research published in the journal Nature showed that Aeneas was able to identify missing parts of Latin inscriptions from the ancient Roman period.

It is emphasized that despite the prevalence of writing in the Roman world, texts from that period found by historians are often fragmentary, erased, or damaged.

Restoring and dating these texts is almost impossible without contextual information, so historians try to identify "parallels" – texts with similarities in wording, syntax, standardized formulas, or origin.

It analyzes thousands of Latin inscriptions, identifying textual and contextual parallels in seconds, allowing historians to interpret and develop the model's findings.

The study showed that AI was able to date events within a 13-year period and restore damaged inscriptions with 73% accuracy in gaps of up to ten characters.

Researchers hope that Aeneas can also be adapted to other ancient languages to decipher writing from papyri to coins, which will expand possibilities and help establish connections between historical findings.

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