Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions
Good use of AI!
[quote]Named Aeneas after the mythical Trojan hero, the program from Google DeepMind predicts where and when inscriptions were made and makes suggestions where words are missing.
[quote]Historians who put the program through its paces said it transformed their work by helping them identify similar inscriptions to those they were studying, a crucial step for setting the texts in context, and proposing words to fill the inevitable gaps in worn and damaged artefacts. Having trained on the rich collection of inscriptions, the AI can assign study texts to one of 62 Roman provinces and estimate when it was written to within 13 years. It also provides potential words to fill in any gaps, though this has only been tested on known inscriptions where text is blocked out.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 24, 2025 3:06 PM
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Terrific. Finally, a good use for AI in interpreting Latin inscriptions (and also ancient scrolls and documents.)
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 24, 2025 6:36 AM
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Next they’ll be telling us to use AI to crack the Zodiac letters.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | July 24, 2025 6:46 AM
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Tool was trained on 200,000 known inscriptions, which can't be done with unique puzzles like the Voynich manuscript or the Zodiac letters.
[quote]Scholars estimate that about 1,500 new inscriptions are found every year.
This is interesting, I had no idea.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 24, 2025 6:56 AM
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I hope they can now work out what Graeco-Roman wrestling is really all about.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 24, 2025 12:47 PM
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[quote] Scholars estimate that about 1,500 new inscriptions are found every year.
When they find an ancient Roman men’s room with walls, the number goes way up.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 24, 2025 3:06 PM
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