AI Fills In The Gaps

[Nick Harbud]

A new system, Aeneas, hopes to fill in all the missing pieces of those Roman tablets and memorial stones.  Either that or it is simply wild speculation for the 21^st Century.

 

[Ian61]

Been listening to a lot about AI recently. What it will do is full in the most likely words/ letters based on what it has been exposed to. Most likely is not necessarily correct.

[Erpingham]

As far as I can tell, this is aiming AI at what it might be good at - absorbing and comparing vast quantities of data and making suggestions for a human expert to follow up.  Similar techniques have been used for medical applications, I believe. Provided a trained human is involved, false positives should be no worse that human guess work but work should proceed much faster.

[DBS]

Broadly sound, but only as long as people remember that any such recreation remains firmly speculative.  One of the issues with Roman inscriptions in particular is the use of abbreviations.  Even if one knows the length of the missing inscription, and can work out a possible number of characters in a lacuna, there is still a huge margin of legitimate variation, even before one throws in imperfect literacy or mixes of Latin and Greek terms within one inscription, as sometimes happens in the Roman East...

[Nick Harbud]

So, this young, uppity AI should watch his step then?

[Imperial Dave]

Did you know that there's now  Yorkshire version called A-Up

 

[Keraunos]

Did you know that there's now  Yorkshire version called A-Up

 

Ah yes, a bit like Tweet, which is what grows there 

[Imperial Dave]

boom tish....