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A 21-year-old computer science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. The scroll had been unreadable since the volcanic eruption in AD 79. Using artificial intelligence, the student deciphered the word 'πορφυρας,' which means 'purple dye' or 'cloths of purple.' This breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge marks a major achievement in the field of papyrology. The student's AI tool has the potential to unlock more secrets from ancient texts.
Crowd-sourced papyrology of new ancient text happening in real time in the vesuvius challenge discord. Has this ever been done before? https://t.co/qL4Lmq6Pao
AI Is 'Unwrapping' Burnt Scrolls From Herculaneum #RoboticsAINews #AINews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAutomation https://t.co/J3yfSdtKso
Artificial intelligence helps to read ancient burned scroll #RoboticsAINews #AINews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAutomation https://t.co/BdiDEuZ1w5
"AI revealed the colorful first word of an ancient scroll torched by Mount Vesuvius" — Popular Science Grab the key takeaways below! 1/6 🧵 https://t.co/h5SJGl3DNW
A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79 https://t.co/VDUH8tNb6v
This is awesome "A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79" https://t.co/d8QlmDbCpb
College Student Uses Machine Learning to Decipher Word in Ancient Roman Scroll https://t.co/BfQXRjZLWJ
From deep within a papyrus scroll that has not been read in almost 2,000 years and would crumble to pieces if unrolled, researchers have used machine learning to retrieve a handful of letters and a single word: “porphyras,” ancient Greek for “purple.” https://t.co/yMRIX6VxkG
Student uses AI to decipher word in ancient scroll from Herculaneum https://t.co/JptaOUkg1r
A student's AI tool wins a global contest to read the text inside a carbonized Herculaneum scroll, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79 (@jomarchant / Nature) https://t.co/FDg9DcvIJx 📫 Subscribe: https://t.co/OyWeKSRpIM https://t.co/nNiB51lMlS
AI Is 'Unwrapping' Burnt Scrolls From Herculaneum https://t.co/gWtpbE7uiw https://t.co/uQxPfHauwA
After a student realized a CT scan could located inked areas on a rolled up, ancient Herculaneum scroll, he trained an AI to help him decipher the rest. Read more: https://t.co/O0RZGjxP4n
AI Just Deciphered an Ancient Herculaneum Scroll Without Unrolling It ► https://t.co/6GBBu5OnvT https://t.co/6GBBu5OnvT
Using AI, two students have discovered the Greek word for "purple" in scorched scrolls from Herculaneum It's the first word ever discovered in the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition that offers a grand prize of $700,000 for finding letters or text in the 2,000-year-old papyrus https://t.co/16NXu2hnft
AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time #RoboticsAINews #AINews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAutomation https://t.co/sxWhJXc5S1
Mindblowing for science & science policy: 1800 classical scrolls, buried by Vesuvius, likely have many "lost" ancient texts (maybe 2x what's currently know!). But we can't open or read them due to fragility. Seales' lab at Kentucky scans them w/ electron microscope. Still nothing
Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius #RoboticsAINews #AINews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIAutomation https://t.co/ekqbD9gNDm
Think you can detect AI writing? Experts can't. This paper had editors from top linguistics journals try to do just that and "reviewers were largely unsuccessful in identifying AI versus human writing, with an overall positive identification rate of only 38.9%." HT @EnglishOER https://t.co/qIqx7Plj20
The spot where most of the scrolls were found https://t.co/SizwcRz7mn
The use of AI to decipher unopened scrolls that were burned and buried in 79AD is like foreshadowing of what's to come as AI upends science. Click on this for more https://t.co/dDwh5iIbNO
For the first time, amateur researchers have deciphered letters on an unopened ancient scroll, using artificial intelligence to isolate the letters. https://t.co/cJECbfyPsU
A 21-year-old computer-science student has won a global contest to read the first text inside a carbonized scroll from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum, which had been unreadable since a volcanic eruption in AD 79 https://t.co/HjFhMxxNE3
AI just deciphered part of an ‘unreadable’ ancient scroll. Here’s what it says https://t.co/y34fBk7QMT
Researchers use AI to read word on ancient scroll burned by Vesuvius https://t.co/pQGiglG3YF
This is HUGE! For the first time since the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD 79, the words on un-openable carbonised papyrus scrolls can now be read. Looks like someone will soon win the $700,000 prize for reading four passages by the end of the year! https://t.co/pxwhrVaG0C
Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." https://t.co/0EDGBX4t4h Congratulations to 21yo computer science… https://t.co/UViNyVCmK8 https://t.co/VLwtU9I8xl
Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." https://t.co/0EDGBX4t4h Congratulations to 21yo computer science… https://t.co/ePszkQ0uiW https://t.co/cmaVZpo9pZ