It seems that people have been trying to use ChatGPT to translate Linear-A, but there are just too few texts to allow translation.
Oh, well. I've thought for some time that they would just be ancient Minoan shopping lists, anyway.
It seems that people have been trying to use ChatGPT to translate Linear-A, but there are just too few texts to allow translation.
Oh, well. I've thought for some time that they would just be ancient Minoan shopping lists, anyway.
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This reminds me of translation algorithms on Star Trek - the problem is that human language has too many rules, and even more exceptions, to handle without a large sample to generate a large rulebook.
I don't know what the minimum data size would be for a project like this, however having known some linguists, it has to be not only large but also diverse in specific ways to capture a usable picture of the language.
As I recall, that was the 'big reveal' in A Canticle for Lieberwitz.
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