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Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by nighthawk454 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @03:01PM (#33025498)
Not as such. AI isn't magic, it's fuzzy pattern matching based on existing data. We couldn't just show it some stone out of nowhere and have it "think" or "reason" about what to do with it.

If on the other hand you had a model otherwise trained on a bunch of hieroglyphics<-->English data, then sure probably.

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Re:Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion decipher... by meetingthrower on Thursday September 29, 2022 @04:09PM (#33026428)
Well I know that it can't reason. But we know two translations and hieroglyphics are the third. So how close could it get to "solving" the hieroglyphics to Greek pattern match?
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