AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This is really interesting. The AI part seems a trifle oversold. The primary insight was not assisted by AI. But after the manual work was done Claude helped to build some Python scripts to work with big chunks of the corpus rather manually checking.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      4·
      3 months ago

      Having seen a lot of the baseless claims of people “solving” the Voynich Manuscript over the years (which all invariably turn out to not actually be solutions in the end) this did decidedly have a whiff of those.

  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    6·
    3 months ago

    Would be an absolutely incredible find, but I will for sure await a peer reviewed paper before I start jumping around in excitement.