Artificial intelligence revealed the title of an illicit roll
For centuries, researchers have sought to unravel what writes on the charred rolls of works by Greek and Roman philosophers and poets found in the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Herculanej, who was buried in 79 by the outbreak of Vesuvi. Many of them have been destroyed by many of the bolds due to the physical opening of the rolls, but now artificial intelligence has come to the rescue.
We reported great success last year when researchers showedthat virtual development of carbonized rolls is possible and revealed particles of the content of the then unknown Philodem text, which speaks of the pleasant effects of music and food on the senses. But that was just the beginning.
In the prize competition, the challenge of Vezuva, that is, the competition in the use of machine learning, computer vision and other similar methods, has now announced a new greater victory. The researchers received € 53,000 because they were the first to reveal the title and the authors of the sealed non -biber roll. Based on key lines, they found that it was a passage of work About virtues Epicurean philosopher and poet Philodem (c.
Winner Marcel Roth, a student at Julia Maksimilian University in Würzburg, and Mich Nowak of Gray Swan AI, in which they are involved in Internet security and is based in Pittsburg, adapted a model of artificial intelligence to decrypt the artificial intelligence, which is usually used to analyze medical images. The researchers were inspected by the Pherc roll. 172, which is kept at the Library of the University of Oxford and was painted last year in the Diamond Light Source particle accelerator. Roth and Nowak were patiently inspecting the scanned roll and marking the parts where there was ink and where it did not, and then offered it to learn their UI model. After several rounds of learning, the model successfully selected ink parts that is not visible to the human eye, which allowed clearly legible images of the manuscript, the magazine described Nature. It is no surprise that it is a philodem work, since it is a belief that many rolls are part of his personal library.
« This is the first roll in which the ink was visible only on the scanner, » he is for Guardian said Michael McOSKER from the University College in London, who collaborates with researchers at Oxford when reading the text. “No one knew what he was talking about. We didn’t even know if anything was written on it. « It was already shown to be ink on the roll, and the researchers observed the ancient Greek word for » disgust « in the document, in addition to this word » confusion « and » fear « .
The award -winning researchers read the words « about virtues » and « philemem » on the most inner part, thus finding out the title and author of the text. There may also be an alpha letter on the roll, which suggests that it may be the first book of a series containing at least ten books, others deal with topics such as arrogance, greed, flattery and household management. They may also read them soon, as the synchronous scan continues. In achieving that we can read so far unconditionally, it is also stunning, or above all, how fast the technological development of artificial intelligence is.
