Google DeepMind has introduced Aeneas, a new artificial intelligence model designed to assist historians in interpreting, restoring, and contextualizing ancient Latin inscriptions from the Roman period. Building on the 2022 Ithaca project, Aeneas is trained on a dataset of 176,000 Latin inscriptions and can predict missing parts of texts, estimate their dates, and identify their geographical origins with approximately 90% accuracy. The AI model not only restores fragmented texts but also finds textual and contextual parallels within seconds, significantly enhancing historians' ability to analyze ancient writings. According to research, historians working with Aeneas increased their accuracy by 44%, with the combination of AI and human expertise yielding the best results. The tool has been recognized in a paper published in Nature and is seen as a breakthrough in the use of AI for humanities research, enabling scholars to spend less time deciphering texts and more time understanding the historical context of Roman society.
𝐀𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐬: 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐥𝐞’𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐬 𝐇𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 History is no longer written just by scholars - it’s being reconstructed by AI. Meet Aeneas, Google’s latest innovation that uses artificial intelligence to rebuild lost https://t.co/enffyRBHFM
Researchers have unveiled a new AI model capable of suggesting likely dates and geographical origins for samples of Latin inscriptions. It is the latest step towards the goal of using the technology to do more than read individual texts https://t.co/6ipGHFR3RM
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