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Students have found the meaning of words written down almost 2000 years ago. Using AI… Let’s dive in!
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Students Decipher Word in 2000-Year-Old Scroll Using AI
Scrolls entombed for nearly two millennia in the ashes of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in AD 79 are finally beginning to be deciphered. And it’s all thanks to AI…
These papyrus scrolls, tightly bound and charred by the cataclysmic event that also consumed Pompeii, are being deciphered through 3D X-ray scans. A breakthrough moment happened when a 21-year-old computer science student, Luke Farritor, from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, successfully trained an AI to discern faint, ink-like patterns within the scans.
The result? The word "porphyras," meaning "purple," emerged from the ancient script.
Upon witnessing Farritor's revelation, Michael McOsker of the University of Cologne was astounded. "It was immediately convincing, like ‘Good lord, that’s Greek,'" he said. Farritor's accomplishment was part of the Vesuvius Challenge, an open-source competition awarding prizes for decoding these enigmatic scrolls. His submission came in August.
Around the same time, Youssef Nader, a graduate student in data science at the Free University of Berlin, also independently discovered the word "porphyras." He employed a distinct AI method to identify potential letter shapes within the segmented scroll images. This approach offered an even clearer view of the segment and is now generating new, distinct images from other scrolls. McOsker hailed Nader's achievement as "even more impressive" than Farritor's.
This milestone builds upon the collective efforts of previous Vesuvius Challenge participants, who developed computational tools to map out segments of the scrolls. Crucially, it was made feasible due to the pioneering 3D X-ray scans crafted by Brent Seales and his team at the University of Kentucky.
This recent breakthrough could very well pave the way for a contender to claim the Vesuvius Challenge's grand prize, a substantial sum of $700,000, by deciphering four passages of text from within two preserved scrolls before December 31, 2023.
McOsker emphasizes that thus far, all unrolled papyri under study are lacking their beginnings and are in a state of disrepair. The journey into the past, guided by technology, promises to tell us even more about the things that happened before us…
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