5000-Year-Old Tablets Can Now Be Decoded by Artificial Intelligence, New Research Reveals

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5000-Year-Old Tablets Can Now Be Decoded by Artificial Intelligence, New Research Reveals - The Debrief
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5000-Year-Old Tablets Can Now Be Decoded by Artificial Intelligence, New Research Reveals::Researchers in Germany have unveiled an AI system capable of deciphering ancient cuneiform texts with excellent accuracy.

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Here's to hoping it's more complaints regarding the inferior copper quality of everyone's favorite con artist Ea-Nasir

Ea-Nasir has got to be one of my favourite internet phenomena

Explainer link for people who are blessed enough to be hearing of this for the first time: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/who-is-ea-nasir-and-why-are-people-complaining-about-his-copper-the-viral-complaint-tablet-meme-explained

First timer here, thanks!

All I can think of right now is how pissed those people had to be about the copper quality to carve their grievances onto a complaint tablet.

Archeologists: fascinating, it's a grocery list!

AI researcher: dangit this letter keeps demolishing my roc curve...