AI can help historians restore ancient texts from damaged inscriptions | The New Scientist

An artificial intelligence program built by historians and DeepMind, a UK-based AI company, can assist reconstruct ancient Greek writings with 72 per cent accuracy. The AI can also pinpoint with more than 70% accuracy where the writings were written in the ancient Mediterranean world and date them to within a few decades of their agreed-upon origination date. All of this is an advancement above the AI’s previous iteration, which could only reconstruct old writings. Ithaca could also, 71% of the time, determine where in the Mediterranean a work was written, and it could date the manuscripts to within 30 years of their original creation date, as historians have previously proven. 

Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2311657-ai-can-help-historians-restore-ancient-texts-from-damaged-inscriptions/