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Papyrus scroll burnt to a crisp during Vesuvius eruption deciphered with help of AI | CNN (edition.cnn.com)
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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Didn’t this happen years ago? I remember them doing the same thing using some heuristic algorithm long before llms were on the scene.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    The article never mentioned LLMs. LLMs only make up a small part of all AI tools. The AI in this sense is referring to machine learning models used to help digitally unroll the scroll and then another machine learning model that's used to detect the letters.

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