Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past (deepmind.google) 42 points by world2vec 11mo ago ↗ HN
[–] ViktorRay 11mo ago ↗ Dang this is pretty cool!Probably will help make life easier for many historians. [–] MarkusQ 11mo ago ↗ Just guessing (esp. "educated guesses") always makes life easier. No idea why historians are so opposed to it.Just kidding. Some historians will probably love this, and some will probably hate it.
[–] MarkusQ 11mo ago ↗ Just guessing (esp. "educated guesses") always makes life easier. No idea why historians are so opposed to it.Just kidding. Some historians will probably love this, and some will probably hate it.
[–] bpodgursky 11mo ago ↗ This is sort of funny because the Roman story of Aeneas was essentially a propaganda piece to create a national founding narrative.
[–] bawana 11mo ago ↗ so now I can take a photo of those scratchings on greek marble ruins and it will tell me the whole text and when it was written?
[–] Incipient 11mo ago ↗ I'd really liked to have seen some outputs showing it reconstruct KNOWN tablets when provided with a portion of them.
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[ 1.9 ms ] story [ 21.4 ms ] threadProbably will help make life easier for many historians.
Just kidding. Some historians will probably love this, and some will probably hate it.