Ancient Greek historians have now an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help decipher texts. Being a scholar in ancient Greek is difficult. The primary texts, on stone that may have been chipped and weathered through time, are frequently damaged beyond repair and hard to decipher, but a recent tool by Google's DeepMind hopes to solve that using artificial intelligence. The application is rather unusual because it uses AI, in a useful way outside of the technology world. DeepMind's Ithaca, a machine learning model, makes surprisingly accurate guesses at missing words and the location and dates of ancient Greek texts.

Ancient Greek historians have a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help decipher texts, a study released on Tuesday suggests. Being a scholar in ancient Greek is difficult. The primary texts, on stone that may have been chipped and weathered through time, are frequently damaged beyond repair and hard to decipher, but a new tool by Google's DeepMind hopes to solve that using artificial intelligence. The application is rather unusual because it uses AI, in a useful way outside of the technology world. DeepMind's Ithaca, a machine learning model, makes surprisingly accurate guesses at missing words and the location and dates of ancient Greek texts.