AI Reconstructs Missing Passages in 2,000-Year-Old Texts
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AI reconstructs missing passages in 2,000-year-old texts
Researchers have developed the world’s first large language model dedicated to Ancient Greek, using artificial intelligence to reconstruct missing passages in historical documents and potentially uncover new evidence about life in the ancient world. The AI system, named Apollo, was developed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in collaboration with European AI companies Mistral […] This content was originally published on www.heritagedaily…
Damaged papyri and inscriptions often leave open how many characters are missing in a text gap. The new language model Apollo Restore complements such passages without predetermined gap length and significantly exceeded earlier systems in tests. A blind study with 20 experts also shows many scientifically plausible alternatives, but the results so far are only available as unevaluated preprint. Vienna [...] The article AI reconstructs gaps in th…
Charred scrolls and unreadable ancient texts: A large part of hundreds of thousands of inscriptions and papyrus fragments from ancient times, which are stored in museums and libraries worldwide, are not completely deciphered. This is to be changed by the AI model "Apollo", the ancient Greek "understood" and developed by the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) together with the European AI companies Mistral AI and SAIL Reply. Score: 80 percent.
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