New AI translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets instantly (bigthink.com)

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Researchers have unearthed hundreds of thousands of cuneiform tablets, but many remain untranslated. Translating an ancient language is a time-intensive process, and only a few hundred experts are qualified to perform it. A recent study describes a new AI that produces high-quality translations of ancient texts.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

It just randomly generated some believable bullshit, as usual.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s pretty freaking great at stuff like that though. We use a custom programming language at work, there are similarities with Haskell and others, but also many differences.

We had a little game where a colleague had put together some team-exercises. He had encrypted a message in base64 and therein written instructions for code, in our custom language that when run gave you an output.

ChatGPT managed to print out the, 100% non random output, and 100% stuff that’s never been anywhere on the internet, without trouble.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Google’s DeepMind was able to teach itself Indonesian without being directly trained on how to do so. Ancient Sumerian doesn’t seem too far fetched, all things considered!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

There was a funny bit on WANShow a few months back where they demonstrated tricking ChatGPT into speaking Dutch (I think. It might have been another language). It vehemently insisted that it didn't know Dutch, and could only talk to them in English. The messages saying this were written in Dutch.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As a Dutch speaker, chatgpt always was able to speak Dutch though, tested it very early on

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