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		taffronaut on Jan 2, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How AI is unlocking ancient texts From TFA "decoding rare and lost languages of which hardly any traces survive". Assuming that's not hype, let's see it have a go at Rongorongo[1] then. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongorongo

nick238 on Jan 2, 2025 [–]

and Linear A [1]. To be fair, whatever model would require data about the context of where the texts were found unless the corpus is massive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_A

shellfishgene on Jan 2, 2025 | [–]

It's mentioned in the article that they hope the model for Linear B can also help with Linear A.

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