Historical text restoring computer program

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   ChrisP on April 14, 2024 at 7:23 am

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   Idea: Historical text restoring computer program

   Link: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vesuvius...

   According to this news story, you can earn a lot of money if you can help an AI program to recover text from damaged scrolls.
   https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vesuvius-challege-use-ai-to-read-burned-scrolls-2272739

   You Can Win $250,000 If You’re Able to Assist This Super-Powered A.I. in Deciphering Ancient, Damaged Scrolls | Artnet News

   Link: https://news.artnet.com/art-worl

   Scientists launch contest to read scrolls from Herculaneum incinerated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius using artificial intelligence.

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   Jimbo on April 14, 2024 at 5:02 am

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   Idea: Historical text restoring computer program

   Link: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-1...

   Check this out! Scientists are using AI to restore damaged ancient tablets.
   https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-11-26/ty-article/scientists-artificial-intelligence-babylonian-tablets-cuneiform-script-israel/0000017f-db95-db5a-a57f-dbff720e0000

   Israeli scientists use AI to reconstruct broken Babylonian tablets

   Link: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-n

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   RudeJude on April 14, 2024 at 2:57 am

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   Idea: Historical text restoring computer program

   Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

   This amazing idea can help recover ancient texts that have been lost for hundreds of years!

   Texts damaged during 79AD Mount Vesuvius eruption deciphered

   Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/ne

   Scientists use powerful X-ray to analyse nearly 2,000 year-old scrolls that cannot be unrolled without destroying them

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   Miss Entropic on April 14, 2023 at 8:54 am

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   Idea: Historical text restoring computer program

   Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar...

   Scientists are also using similar computer programs to reconstruct the faces of ancient skulls.

   Scientists reconstruct the faces of two Scots who lived 700 years ago

   Link: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/scie

   Facial reconstructions based on skull fragments reveal what people living in Leith up to seven hundred years ago might have looked like.

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