On: The Library of Ashurbanipal (2025)

[dpe82]

> There are simply too few historians trained to read them to be able to cope with the supply.

Surely this is something AI tools will (eventually?) be able to help with?

[whythismatters → dpe82]

Posted yesterday (2023 article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282415

[KaiserPro → dpe82]

Yes AI can help, especially in perhaps the "easy" OCR. but where that hard bit comes is where stuff is missing, or the signal is really rather low.

Its also new, or likely new to human knowledge which means that LLMs are not much help without strong guiding.

_if_ I retire, I would love to be translating this stuff until I loose my marbles.

[rbanffy → dpe82]

I currently use AI to help me decipher software that was written two years ago.