Comment on AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time

ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• JamesBean@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want an AI based translation of all the Dead Sea Scrolls as long as we can remove the bias from the training data.

  Emphasis mine. So then you don't want an AI based translation of all the Dead Sea Scrolls?

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i dont want the translation to be informed by the human understanding of the significance of the content, nor the subjective expectations of what a holy scripture would intent to say, based on a personal understanding of faith.

    i dont think this should be controversial.

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• chakan2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reality is biased.

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• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t see the point, I’ve never seen an AI that can translate better than a human

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  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That doesn’t mean one doesn’t exist. Think of how far video transcription has come in the last decade. AI will absolutely surpass human ability to quickly and very accurately translate text.

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AI is waaaay better for English to Chinese translation, I can tell you that from experience in my personal life.

    There’s a lot of nuance to translation, especially for languages with completely different structures.

    Not seeing the point of everything you’ve never seen is a good way to get poked in the eyes my friend.

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All the Dead Sea Scrolls that we know of. I am about 90% sure we have them all, 10% that the Vatican has a text fragments or two that they are sitting on.

  It shouldn’t take 40-45 years to take a few photographs and any translation difficulties would be better solved by the community vs individual professors.

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