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AI Deciphers Text from 2,000-Year-old Roman Scroll Burned During the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
This latest development may lead not only to the discovery of a previously illegible text, but also paves the way for artificial intelligence techniques.
As part of the Vesuvius Challenge contest, the winners trained machine-learning algorithms on scans of the rolled-up papyrus, wherein they uncovered a previously unknown philosophical work on senses and pleasure. For the last 20 years, Seales has been working to read these concealed texts by creating software with his team that virtually maps the surfaces of the rolled papyri with 3-D computed tomography (CT) images. Luke Farritor, an undergraduate computer science student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, then used this texture to train a machine-learning algorithm, which picked up on the word porphyras(purple) for which he won a prize.
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