[HN Gopher] Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Unti...
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       Piecing Together an Ancient Epic Was Slow Work. Until A.I. Got
       Involved
        
       Author : gumby
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2024-08-12 21:36 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
        
       | Zacharias030 wrote:
       | What kind of ,,AI" / machine learning was used?
        
         | jeanlucas wrote:
         | NLP:
         | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
        
       | coldtea wrote:
       | "And then it hallucinated all kinds of non-existing wrong
       | content. Job done!"
        
         | gumby wrote:
         | A generative model makes no sense for this application. I think
         | they are using the machines to surface possible matches for
         | humans to consider, similar to the use of RNNs for potential
         | drug candidates.
        
         | vatsadev wrote:
         | People out here really forgetting the rest of ML exists
        
       | skywhopper wrote:
       | "And then Gilgamesh said 'Use the Force, Enkidu!' And Enkidu took
       | the Ring and cast it into the fires of Mount Doom, and Ned Stark
       | saw that it was good."
        
         | recursive wrote:
         | Not all "AI" is LLMs.
        
       | jeanlucas wrote:
       | If you want to skip the journalistic fluffery and go to the
       | technicals here's the paper:
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       | Reading Akkadian cuneiform using natural language processing
       | (NLP):
       | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
        
         | mouse_ wrote:
         | Thank you!
        
       | savanaly wrote:
       | The Rationalist community has a saying "politics is the mind-
       | killer." [0] After reading enough comments sections on Hacker
       | News about stories like this, I think the sequel is "talking
       | about AI is the mind-killer."
       | 
       | [0]
       | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9weLK2AJ9JEt2Tt8f/politics-i...
        
         | pavlov wrote:
         | Ironically the Rationalists were the ones to first lose their
         | senses in speculative AI worship.
        
         | jfengel wrote:
         | What an odd saying. To me it reads, "The things that affect my
         | life are my top priority".
         | 
         | I'm pretty sure he means to be talking about people who engage
         | in it for funsies and yet approach it with the same level of
         | importance. But there are those for whom politics is still
         | literally life and death.
        
       | parpfish wrote:
       | Id love to see ML take on Codex Seraphinianus. Even if the
       | answers are just hallucinations, they'd fit thematically.
       | 
       | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
        
       | renewiltord wrote:
       | New Fragmentarium Website: https://fragmentarium.ms/
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       | Old: https://www.ebl.lmu.de/fragmentarium
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       | Related papers:
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       | - https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.1197.pdf
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       | - https://openreview.net/pdf?id=z6ZGKexu8un
       | 
       | NLP-enabled string matching. I wish there were more details about
       | _how_ they did it in the NYT article since that would be much
       | more interesting than just saying "AI".
       | 
       | The comments here are really atrocious and ironically all seem
       | LLM-generated.
        
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