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Translation of cuneiform is limited by the number of people who know the different Semitic and nonsemitic languages. Bulk transcription of the texts just makes
by thechao 2y ago
Translation of cuneiform is limited by the number of people who know the different Semitic and nonsemitic languages. Bulk transcription of the texts just makes the amount of material available to translate even more overwhelming.
The real revolution would be AI reconstruction of the 3d fragments and filtering of the bulk documents (receipts) from the interesting historical augments. (Hate mail, spam, poetry, death threats, omens, math, etc.)
- showerst 2y agoThe real revolution would be an end to end machine transliteration to translation pipeline. …Which will require lots of sample data for all the steps.
- wbl 2y agoHumans learn these languages from tiny samples+structured practice and dictionaries. Research required but AI could be similarly low info.