Lacunae and AI: Filling the Gaps

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Lacunae and AI: Filling the Gaps

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I think most of us knew this was coming:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/202 ... esearchers

Original story in Nature:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04448-z
Here we present Ithaca, a deep neural network for the textual restoration, geographical attribution and chronological attribution of ancient Greek inscriptions. Ithaca is designed to assist and expand the historian’s workflow. The architecture of Ithaca focuses on collaboration, decision support and interpretability. While Ithaca alone achieves 62% accuracy when restoring damaged texts, the use of Ithaca by historians improved their accuracy from 25% to 72%, confirming the synergistic effect of this research tool. Ithaca can attribute inscriptions to their original location with an accuracy of 71% and can date them to less than 30 years of their ground-truth ranges, redating key texts of Classical Athens and contributing to topical debates in ancient history.
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What's funny is my son is really into chess and there are a lot of chess videos on Youtube as you can imagine. Now that AI is playing chess Grand Masters are learning from computers. The computers don't play the way we do. Their style breaks norms because they're so much superior to us. Before AI it was all structured in terms of 'how the game should be played.' Now not so much.
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Same news, popular explanation:
https://www.inverse.com/science/ai-code-break
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