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Ancient Scripts Still Resist AI Decoding Efforts
Artificial intelligence aids in analyzing fragmentary ancient scripts lacking bilingual keys, but limited data hampers full decipherment, researchers say.
- Researchers are using AI to attempt to decode multiple undeciphered scripts, focusing on Minoan scripts like Linear A and abstract systems such as Rongorongo, researchers say.
- Without a Rosetta-style bilingual key, decipherment stalls because fragmentary corpora and artificial intelligence requirements of large datasets limit pattern recognition and hypothesis testing.
- The Phaistos Disc, a unique Crete artifact around 1700 B.C., exemplifies single-object limits, while Indus/Harappan script appears in short sequences and Proto-Elamite tablets are fragmentary administrative notes.
- But researchers caution that AI reaches limits with tiny corpora and can mirror analysts' biases, as Svenja Bonmann said, 'You are always working with fragments or scraps of the past.'
- The earlier decipherment of Linear B shows breakthroughs are possible, and decoding these scripts would reveal records of ancient advanced civilizations and reshape scholarly impact.
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