A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records
Wired AI Joel Khalili September 22, 2026
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# AI Helps Historians Read Damaged Ancient Greek Texts Researchers have created an AI tool that can figure out what's missing in damaged ancient Greek documents, similar to how you might complete a sentence someone started but didn't finish. This could help historians discover new information about how people lived thousands of years ago by making broken papyrus fragments readable again.
In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.
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