Can YOU decipher these scrolls? Scientists are offering a $250,000 prize
Challenge: Scientists are offering $250,000 (£205,000) in prizes for anybody who can read a series of 2,000-year-old manuscripts that were charred during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
A team of researchers have launched a contest after showing that an artificial intelligence system can extract letters and symbols from high-resolution X-ray images of the documents
HOW THE MACHINE-LEARNING SOFTWARE WORKS Researchers have launched a contest after showing that an artificial intelligence system can extract letters and symbols from high-resolution X-ray images of the documents.This machine-learning algorithm was trained to read the ink on both the surface and hidden layers of the unopened scrolls.The black ink used to write on them cannot be seen, but when looked at in infrared you can see Greek letters and symbols, some of which have been deciphered by the artificial intelligence software. Advertisement
Researchers have launched a contest after showing that an artificial intelligence system can extract letters and symbols from high-resolution X-ray images of the documents.This machine-learning algorithm was trained to read the ink on both the surface and hidden layers of the unopened scrolls.The black ink used to write on them cannot be seen, but when looked at in infrared you can see Greek letters and symbols, some of which have been deciphered by the artificial intelligence software.
