A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records

In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments. Academic libraries across the globe are stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments. Though many are so damaged that their meaning is probably lost, scholars have the ability to restore the rest by methodically filling in missing words or phrases. To accelerate that laborious task, researchers have turned to artificial intelligence . On Wednesday, the Austrian Academy of Science will release "the world's first advanced large language model for Ancient Greek," developed in partnership with French AI lab Mistral and technology services firm Sail Reply.