UK Daily Mail
The famous Herculaneum scroll, charred papyrus found buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, has been deciphered by artificial intelligence.
The feat was achieved by students in the Vesuvius challenge, which used algorithms to scan the artifact that would otherwise had been destroyed if unraveled by human hands.
The winning team read more than 2,000 ‘never-before-seen’ texts that discussed sources of pleasure, such as music, the taste of capers and the color purple. More
Get your shit and git
Turns out it was about an extended warranty for your chariot.
Dr Tar, I find this stuff fascinating. A.I. is NOT U.I. Ultimate Intelligence. Thanks for posting this. Wish me luck. Headed down the rabbit hole.
Pleasure, music and the color purple. Good times.
… and don’t get me started on the capers.
“Dear Herculaneum Player, I know this is going to sound made up. I met these two twins in a bar and they agreed to come back to my place…”
@cynic
Complementary or Angled?
“One day there will be a President harder to follow than a grain of rice through a Shanghi neighborhood”
AI? I wonder if it was pretrained to be focused on pleasure for the benefit of today’s ‘accepted’ train of thought?
‘Pleeasure’ like getting reparations for something you never experienced. Pleasure while raping, pilaging and making the white man suffer…
Yep, it’s a stretch and most likely they are doing honest archeology.
But one never really knows in this upside-down world we have today.
Oh well, tomorrow’s another day in paradise. Good night all!
“Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”
This will be just the beginning of reading these scrolls. There are 1,800 waiting to be deciphered in this library.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum_papyri
There are some really important works of antiquity that are only hinted at in other sources.
Just look at the works we know about but that we have no copy of today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_literary_work
There may be important works we’ve never even heard of in this collection as well.
Cynic – I only read the scrolls for the articles…
Hugh Betcha
WEDNESDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2024, 9:43 AT 9:43 AM
Not everybody in the ancient world was as reserved.
https://youtu.be/cQQfCeSSoCk?si=wecLQd4o0Z5SQlsj&t=11m15s