AI used to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scrolls

[John Clark]

Artificial intelligence is getting so good it can now extract useful information even from highly degraded material, and this should give some encouragement to those who plan to be cryogenically preserved. In 79 AD Mount Vesuvius erupted engulfing the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. It also burned up a library containing thousands of scrolls, reducing them to tightly rolled upcarbonized lumps. Nevertheless an advanced AI was able to read about 5% of the information in them.  

AI used to decipher the text of 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scrolls

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