AI Revolutionizes the Study of Ancient Roman History
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A new AI system called Aeneas has the potential to significantly enhance our understanding of ancient Rome by filling in missing parts of inscriptions, dating artifacts, and identifying their origins, thereby accelerating and improving historical research, despite some concerns about accuracy.
- Gaps in what we know about ancient Romans could be filled by AI BBC
- Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks Nature
- Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past Google DeepMind
- Google develops AI tool that fills missing words in Roman inscriptions The Guardian
- A.I. May Be the Future, but First It Has to Study Ancient Roman History The New York Times
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