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History => Ancient and Medieval History => Topic started by: Duncan Head on Jun 04, 2025, 08:25 PM

Title: Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Post by: Duncan Head on Jun 04, 2025, 08:25 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/04/many-of-dead-sea-scrolls-may-be-older-that-thought-experts-say
Title: Re: Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Post by: Imperial Dave on Jun 05, 2025, 04:20 AM
Maybe the it was the alive sea at that time....?
Title: Re: Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Post by: stevenneate on Jun 05, 2025, 05:04 AM
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185[/url

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-05/dead-sea-scrolls-ai-dating-palaeography/105374410 (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0323185)
Title: Re: Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Post by: Imperial Dave on Jun 05, 2025, 06:38 AM
What about chatgpt....I would have asked it rather than messing about with intricate science stuff

 :P
Title: Re: Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Post by: Cantabrigian on Jun 05, 2025, 11:38 AM
I've only read the Guardian article, but it doesn't fill me with a desire to go further.  This sounds like an incredibly small data set to train an AI model.

And if they checked the outputs by asking experts for their opinion, why not just ask the experts in the first place?
Title: Re: Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Post by: Nick Harbud on Jun 05, 2025, 03:13 PM
Possibly because the experts charge at an horrendous hourly rate for their opinion, whereas the AI simply rips off everyone else's work for nothing...

...or just makes things up out of its imagination.  Then you need to pay the expert a small fortune to tell you where it is telling fibs.   >:(
Title: Re: Redating the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Post by: Imperial Dave on Jun 05, 2025, 04:04 PM
Maybe its because our brains are too highly trained...