ZME Science
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5th October 2023
Interesting article - AI helps translate some of the world's oldest writing
Cuneiform is one of the earliest writing systems in human history. Archaeologists have traced it back to 3400 BC, a whopping 5,400 years ago. It also lasted for a pretty long time, over 3,000 years. Researchers have found thousands of texts written in cuneiform in the Sumerian and Akkadian languages — now, they’ve trained a neural network that can translate these texts into English effortlessly.
The Akkadian language is one of the earliest known Semitic languages, a family that includes modern