DeepMind AI Beats Human Historians at Deciphering Ancient Texts - VICE

It's pretty easy to figure out what I mean if __ few symbols are missing from this sentence. According to a new paper by researchers from DeepMind and the University of Oxford's Faculty of Classics, AI can help restore, understand, and recreate ancient Greek texts that have been damaged and left with gaps that make them nearly impossible to understand. The work will be presented next month at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference in Hong Kong. The researchers used an algorithm named after Pythia, the woman who in Greek mythology was a vessel for Apollo's prophecies. They found that it outperformed historians trained in restoring fragmented stone, clay, or metal tablets.