The effort could help historians decipher ancient manuscripts.
Ithaca is named after the Greek island in Homers Odyssey.
Ithacas visualization aids are intended to make it easier for researchers to interpret results.
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The paper’s authors wrote that historians achieved 25% accuracy when working alone to restore ancient texts.
Pythia was the first ancient text restoration model to use deep neural networks.
Often, these patterns are so complex that they would not be obvious to a human expert.
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Predicting missing data is a common task for machine learning-based AI.
For instance,GPT-3 from OpenAIcan predict missing words in a sentence or even missing sentences in a paragraph.
