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“An ancient language has defied translation for 100 years”…

In this characterful series, our very own FaceTim shot three professionals who teamed together and developed an algorithm informed by patterns in how languages develop over time. “They fed their algorithm words in a lost language and in a known related language; its job was to align words from the lost language with their counterparts in the known language. Crucially, the same algorithm could be applied to different language pairs.”

Shot for Rest of World, https://restofworld.org/2022/indus-translation-ai-code-script/ .

(Top) Jiaming Luo, a Phd student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(Middle) Bahata Ansumali Mukhopadhyay, a researcher of Indus script.  
(Bottom) Ronojoy Adhikari, a professor of statistical physics at the University of Cambridge.