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Re:First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 2... by Fleusal on Friday October 13, 2023 @07:40PM (#37876779)
How can they be sure that the results are actual words from the scroll and not just "hallucinations" from the neural network? If the scrolls are in such bad condition that the data is almost just noise then what stops their high-tech deep learning model from just.. making it all up?
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Re:First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by 2... by lolc on Saturday October 14, 2023 @06:21PM (#37884779)
As long as the model doesn't know about words, and finds letter sequences that correspond to words, we can conclude that it found actual writing.
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