{"id":166399,"date":"2023-06-25T14:39:18","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/google-translate-for-ancient-cuneiform-archaeologists-have-used-ai-to-find-a-way"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T19:39:18","slug":"google-translate-for-ancient-cuneiform-archaeologists-have-used-ai-to-find-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/google-translate-for-ancient-cuneiform-archaeologists-have-used-ai-to-find-a-way","title":{"rendered":"Google Translate For Ancient Cuneiform? Archaeologists Have Used AI To Find A Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-translate-for-ancient-cuneiform-archaeologists-have-used-ai-to-find-a-way2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Archaeologists and computer scientists have worked together to create an artificial intelligence (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/tags\/AI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AI<\/a>) program capable of translating ancient cuneiform texts. The researchers say their goal is for the program to form part of a \u201chuman-machine collaboration\u201d, which will assist future scholars in their study of archaic languages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/cuneiform-tablet-shows-demon-that-assyrians-believed-caused-epilepsy-54530\" target=\"_blank\">Cuneiform<\/a> is thought to be the oldest writing system in the world. Recorded by gouging symbols into clay tablets, it was originally developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/tags\/mesopotamia\" target=\"_blank\">Mesopotamians<\/a> in what is now Iraq, where it started out as a way of keeping track of bread and beer rations. The system quickly spread throughout the ancient Middle East, where it remained in use continuously for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/blog\/how-write-cuneiform\" target=\"_blank\">over 3,000 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of documents, most written in either the Sumerian or Akkadian languages using the cuneiform script, survive to this day; but translating them can be a major headache. For one thing, there simply aren\u2019t that many people with the necessary expertise. For another, the texts are often broken up into fragments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologists and computer scientists have worked together to create an artificial intelligence (AI) program capable of translating ancient cuneiform texts. The researchers say their goal is for the program to form part of a \u201chuman-machine collaboration\u201d, which will assist future scholars in their study of archaic languages. Cuneiform is thought to be the oldest writing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166399","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}