AI is helping to decipher Oracle Bones symbols (earliest verified Chinese writing, logographic script type, radiocarbon dated to around 1200BC)

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The Shang Dynasty Has An Unexpected Ally: AI
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Don't make me point to the sign:

"AI is poorly suited to situations where data is spare, because it will simply start making up random shit."

This is language so it could be a valid use for LLMs. An LLM trained on an unknown language won't be usable like you're thinking. It won't be able to explain or translate anything. It will only be able to recognize the plausibility of sentences in that language and produce new sentences that nobody will be able to understand.

Whooooo AI is gonna make up a buncha lies about our history that we won't debunk until long after the LLM companies go bankrupt