{"id":75643,"date":"2018-01-29T20:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/artificial-intelligence-may-have-cracked-freaky-600-year-old-manuscript"},"modified":"2018-01-29T20:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T04:02:48","slug":"artificial-intelligence-may-have-cracked-freaky-600-year-old-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/artificial-intelligence-may-have-cracked-freaky-600-year-old-manuscript","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old Manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-intelligence-may-have-cracked-freaky-600-year-old-manuscript.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Yale University) Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, of has confounded linguists and cryptographers. Using artificial intelligence, Canadian researchers have taken a huge step forward in unraveling the document\u2019s hidden meaning. Named after Wilfrid Voynich, the Polish book dealer who procured the manuscript in 1912, the document is written in an unknown script that encodes an unknown language\u2014a double-whammy of\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEK4dYjwjC0w__LmYrnLW9_cqFQgEKg0IACoGCAowlIECMLBMMJ-mHg\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEK4dYjwjC0w__LmYrn...MLBMMJ-mHg<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vonyich manuscript (Image: Beinecke Rare Book &amp; Manuscript Library, Yale University) Since its discovery over a hundred years ago, the 240-page Voynich manuscript, filled with seemingly coded language and inscrutable illustrations, of has confounded linguists and cryptographers. Using artificial intelligence, Canadian researchers have taken a huge step forward in unraveling the document\u2019s hidden meaning. [\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-75643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75643","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=75643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}