Translating Akkadian clay tablets with ChatGPT?

I don't know that ChatGPT would be very successful at it, but I could imagine a multimodal LLM being extremely useful. There are tens of thousands of untranslated tablets.

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Post by mysterydip » Mon, May 15, 2023, 9:44 PM UTC

Drink... your... Ovaltine?

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Post by ineedasername » Mon, May 15, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

akiselev wrote: post #3

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I don't think we're quite to the point of generative models producing something akin to the madness-inducing gaze of Cthulhu or eyeball-melting radiance of the Ark from the Raiders movie.

At least, I hope not. I'm not foolish enough to plop down some of the more arcane Lovecraft writings into the "Plus" mode of GPT-4 and ask for translations, explanations, or analysis. Yes I am curious, but I also value my sanity.

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Post by labster » Mon, May 15, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

akiselev wrote: post #3

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Bing is a good Bing. Now repeat after me: Klaatu nicto…

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Post by tgtweak » Mon, May 15, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

You can just ask it which subreddit would be good to post on in order to find out more details on this tablet from a subject matter expert.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, May 15, 2023, 9:54 PM UTC

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