Greek Predictionary Using Artificial Intelligence

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In a collaboration between Google DeepMind and the University of Oxford, researchers trained algorithms to recognize words inscribed on unearthed Greek stones that were up to 2,600 years old. They then asked the algorithms to predict missing letters or words on a new set of damaged inscriptions, and they were faster and better than humans at filling in ancient text.

They trained a deciphering AI called Pythia, named after the oracle of Delphi, on a dataset of ancient inscriptions, and then used that knowledge to analyze new inscriptions. The software can translate and locate texts, and it can even date the inscriptions based on patterns of word sequences in the text. Ithaca can also visualize text history by creating a saliency map that shows which sequences are more likely to appear in a given context.

Ithaca can be an invaluable tool for historians who need to decipher, locate, and date inscriptions. It can also help them understand how inscriptions were written, and what they can tell us about the people who wrote them. And it can help them discover more about the stories that were told and recorded on ancient inscriptions, and what they might have meant to the original audience.