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DeepMind's Aeneas AI Unveils Insights in Ancient Latin Inscriptions
ROMAN EMPIRE, JUL 23 – Aeneas AI, trained on 176,000+ inscriptions, improves accuracy in dating and restoring Latin texts, helping historians identify origins within 13 years and boosting research ideas in 90% of cases.
- Google DeepMind unveiled Aeneas, which analyzes thousands of Latin inscriptions to predict missing text and contextualize texts, published today in Nature, aiding historical interpretation.
- Many Latin inscriptions survive only in incomplete fragments, experts say locating parallel inscriptions is time consuming, Thea Sommerschield said, and the dataset contains 176,861 inscriptions from the seventh century BC to eighth century AD.
- In tests, 23 epigraphers used Aeneas to restore removed text, specialists with access outperformed those working alone, and dates matched within 13 years.
- Open-Source model is now freely available online, and Aeneas spurred new research ideas for 90% of inscriptions.
- In upcoming updates, the model could analyze Greek or hieroglyphic texts and integrate multimodal data such as inscription images.
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Supercharged artifical intelligence pulling from thousands of ancient inscriptions could be used to fill in the gaps in our knowledge and help historians better understand human history
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About 1,500 Latin inscriptions are discovered every year, providing an invaluable insight into the daily lives of ancient Romans, but also posing a great challenge to historians who have to interpret them.
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