Researchers from the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute and the Department of Computer Science have collaborated to design an AI that can help decode tablets from ancient civilizations. According to Phys.org, the AI is called DeepScribe and was trained on over 6,000 annotated images pulled from the Persepolis Fortification Archive, when it is complete the AI model will be able to interpret unanalyzed tablets, making studying ancient documents easier. Experts who study ancient documents, like the researchers who are studying the documents created during the Achaemenid Empire in Persia, need to translate ancient documents by hand, a long process that is prone to errors. Researchers have been using computers to assist in interpreting ancient documents since the 1990s, but the computer programs that were used were of limited help. The complex cuneiform characters, as well as the three-dimensional shape of the tablets, put a cap on how useful the computer programs could be.