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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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REVEALED: Google develops ai tool that fills missing words in roman inscriptions - The Real Truth

a damaged latin inscription with suggested words filling in the gaps
The program proposes words to fill the inevitable gaps in worn and damaged artefacts. Photograph: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In addition to sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a freshwater system and public health, the Romans also produced a lot of inscriptions.

Making sense of the ancient texts can be a slog for scholars, but a new artificial intelligence tool from Google DeepMind aims to ease the process. Named Aeneas after the mythical Trojan hero, the program predicts where and when inscriptions were made and makes suggestions where words are missing.

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