An AI engineer has claimed a significant breakthrough in deciphering Linear A, an undeciphered script from the Bronze Age Minoan civilization on Crete. The engineer used AI-powered scripts to test a hypothesis that a word in a prayer inscription derived from a Semitic root. This approach reportedly allowed for the assignment of values to 40 signs and the compilation of a lexicon, suggesting Linear A belongs to the Semitic language family. While AI played a role in testing the hypothesis and processing the data, the initial creative idea originated from the human engineer. AI
IMPACT AI is being leveraged to accelerate linguistic research and potentially unlock the secrets of undeciphered ancient languages.
RANK_REASON The item discusses the application of AI to a linguistic research problem, specifically the decipherment of an ancient language. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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