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Nothing in the article even mentions artificial intelligence. Sounds more like a standard deterministic algorithm.
by pimlottc 2y ago
Nothing in the article even mentions artificial intelligence. Sounds more like a standard deterministic algorithm.
- jeroenhd 2y agoThe AI part seems to be part of the OCR algorithm. OCR has been using AI techniques for ages, so there's nothing new here, other than that this project is making good progress the more valid data they can decode with help of this, the more training data they have and the better subsequent OCR will be able to process near illegible tablets.
- WalterBright 2y agoI am heartened by AI now being able to decipher my grandma's letters.
- sapphicsnail 2y agoIt talked about digitization but that could mean a lot of things. Are they just putting pictures of the fragments up? Is there a transcription of the fragments. Can the algorithm transcribe a fragment or does someone have to do that and then feed it to the algorithm? I don't know as much about cuneiform tablets but people get PhDs just to be able to recognize what letters are on a papyrus fragment. I'd be surprised if a computer could do that already.
- mistrial9 2y agoI looked quickly at a github dot com repo of the same name to investigate this question. It seemed like a portable GUI desktop app that showed catalogs of images with some relevant shortcuts, written in C++.. at least ten years old
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]