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Ethan Mollick Says AI Could Help Clear Backlogs in Translating Ancient Texts
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A bunch of funded projects to unblock some long-standing backlogs in translations using AI would be interesting; especially when AI models can do a reasonable first pass at interpretation & significance, not just translation. There are major repositories of untranslated ancient
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See the full storyEthan Mollick Proposes Funding AI Projects to Address Ancient Text Translation BacklogsA bunch of funded projects to unblock some long-standing backlogs in translations using AI would be interesting; especially when AI models can do a reasonable first pass at interpretation & significance, not just translation. There are major repositories of untranslated ancient
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Ethan Mollick proposed funding projects that use AI to tackle long-standing backlogs of untranslated ancient texts, suggesting that models could help with initial interpretation as well as translation. He pointed to major repositories of untranslated ancient material and said such projects would be especially interesting when AI models can provide a reasonable first pass at interpreting the texts and assessing their significance.
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