{"id":50,"date":"2025-08-08T10:42:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/papyrology-and-ai-the-library-at-herculaneum\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T10:42:01","slug":"papyrology-and-ai-the-library-at-herculaneum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/papyrology-and-ai-the-library-at-herculaneum\/","title":{"rendered":"Papyrology and AI: the Library at Herculaneum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">How much of a curse and how much of a blessing&#0160; Artificial Intelligence will prove to be remains to be seen. Book <a href=\"https:\/\/philanthropynewsdigest.org\/news\/ukentucky-partners-receive-13.5-million-to-read-herculaneum-scrolls\">this<\/a> on the blessing side of the ledger:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/uky.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">University of Kentucky<\/a>&#0160;(UKY) has announced it is a co-recipient of a $13.5 million (\u20ac11.5 million) grant from the&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/erc.europa.eu\/\" target=\"_self\">European Research Council<\/a>&#0160;in support of an international effort to decipher ancient papyrus scrolls carbonized and buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The award will enable the consortium to scale its efforts over the next six years to digitally recover, analyze, and read text from hundreds of papyrus scrolls that have until now been undecipherable. In addition, the project will leverage AI to connect pieces of scrolls, find patterns in how the library at Herculaneum was organized, and help establish best practices to preserve the collection. The project may uncover as much as 4.5 million words of entirely new Greek and Latin literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much of a curse and how much of a blessing&#0160; Artificial Intelligence will prove to be remains to be seen. Book this on the blessing side of the ledger: The&#0160;University of Kentucky&#0160;(UKY) has announced it is a co-recipient of a $13.5 million (\u20ac11.5 million) grant from the&#0160;European Research Council&#0160;in support of an international effort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/08\/papyrology-and-ai-the-library-at-herculaneum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Papyrology and AI: the Library at Herculaneum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}