Don’t Be So Obtuse!

But what if you could figure out how to read the dead languages?

• Researchers from MIT and Google Brain created an AI-based system for this purpose
• Languages change with use (think slang & idioms), but the characters and distribution remains relatively similar.
• Because of that, you could attempt to decode a long-lost language if you understood its relationship to a known progenitor language.
• The team - Jiaming Luo and Regina Barzilay used their machine decipher the early Greek language Linear B (see ZING!er up top 🙄) as a control test, as it was deciphered to in 1952/3 by Michael Ventris