Vesuvius Challenge Press Conference 10/12/23 - Sounds Like Significant Progress Using AI

Fascinating stuff, both from a scientific and an Epicurean perspective!

I just hope if this technology takes off, the texts actually make it out into the wild.

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I just hope if this technology takes off, the texts actually make it out into the wild.

Yes to this. I'm ashamed to say that it's far too easy to overlook Philodemus relative to the other sources, and I'm pointing my finger squarely at myself here.

Sorry I haven't logged on lately.

I wanted to report that the Vesuvius Challenge, the effort to read hundreds of charred scrolls, apparently has reached an important milestone. As many of these scrolls apparently are Epicurean writings, this is of particular importance to our community. Apparently there is a potential for some other lost classical documents to be recovered.

AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time

Machine-learning technique reveals Greek words in CT scans of rolled-up papyrus.

www.nature.com