{"id":165997,"date":"2023-06-18T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/groundbreaking-ai-project-translates-5000-year-old-cuneiform-at-push-of-a-button"},"modified":"2023-06-18T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-18T22:23:28","slug":"groundbreaking-ai-project-translates-5000-year-old-cuneiform-at-push-of-a-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/groundbreaking-ai-project-translates-5000-year-old-cuneiform-at-push-of-a-button","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking AI project translates 5,000-year-old cuneiform at push of a button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/groundbreaking-ai-project-translates-5000-year-old-cuneiform-at-push-of-a-button3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing, but it is so difficult to read that only a few hundred experts around the world can decode the clay tablets filled with wedge-shaped symbols. Now, a team of archaeologists and computer scientists from Israel has created an AI-powered translation program for ancient Akkadian cuneiform, allowing tens of thousands of already digitized tablets to be translated into English instantaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, libraries, museums, and universities have more than half a million clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform. But the sheer number of texts, and the tiny number of Akkadian readers \u2014 a language no one has spoken or written for 2,000 years \u2014 means just a small fraction of these tablets have been translated.<\/p>\n<p>A new Google Translate-type program may allow armchair archaeologists to try their hand at cuneiform interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cuneiform is the oldest known form of writing, but it is so difficult to read that only a few hundred experts around the world can decode the clay tablets filled with wedge-shaped symbols. Now, a team of archaeologists and computer scientists from Israel has created an AI-powered translation program for ancient Akkadian cuneiform, allowing tens [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}