Fragmentary Latin inscriptions can be completed with AI
A new model is finding connections spanning the Roman world
History depends on the written word. But how can a historian interpret a text if its authorship or age are uncertain, and indeed some of those words are missing? The problem is not a new one. But where human experts have struggled, historians are turning to artificial-intelligence (AI) models for suggestions, with impressive results.
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