A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing systems

Re:A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing s... by cdrini on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @01:01AM (#30159120)

All human languages have some commonalities. I remember this headline from 2016, when Google had an AI model that trained on some languages was able to somewhat successfully translate between language pairs it had never seen before:

https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with...

Not sure what the state of research like this is now, or whether it's been applied to stuff like this. I hope so!

EDIT: although it looks like it had seen the languages, but the pair it hadn't translated between.

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Re:A short introduction to the undeciphered Aegean writing s... by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @11:39AM (#30165093)

All the "unseen" pairs of languages had parallel texts with English so Google's vaunted "interlingua" was most likely natural English.

But you shouldn't be downvoted for repeating Google's claim I think. It should be Google that is shamed for peddling such unmitigated nonsense.

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