AI Unravels Ancient Linguistic Mysteries

Name: AI Unravels Ancient Linguistic Mysteries
Uploaded: 2025-09-15T09:22:50+00:00
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A groundbreaking artificial intelligence system, leveraging advanced machine learning, is being hailed as a potential "New Rosetta Stone" for its unprecedented ability to translate long-lost languages. Discover how researchers from MIT and Google AI, including Jiaming Luo, Regina Barzilay, and Yuan Cao, developed this innovative AI that deciphers ancient tongues by understanding the inherent patterns of linguistic evolution, rather than solely relying on vast datasets.

Learn how this revolutionary machine translation approach successfully tested its capabilities on historically lost languages such as Linear B (an early form of Mycenaean Greek) and Ugaritic (an early variant of Hebrew). This incredible AI breakthrough not only redefines what's possible in linguistics and automatic language translation but also opens exciting avenues for deciphering other undeciphered languages from our past. Explore the future of AI-powered language discovery!

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00:00A novel artificial intelligence system, leveraging machine learning, has been hailed as a potential

00:09new Rosetta Stone due to its ability to translate long-lost languages.

00:14In recent years, the field of linguistics has undergone a significant transformation,

00:19largely driven by the proliferation of extensive annotated databases and advanced machine learning

00:24techniques. This has made automatic language translation commonplace, and while not flawless,

00:31these methods have profoundly reshaped our understanding of language itself.

00:36This groundbreaking system was developed by Jeming Luo and Regina Barzilay from MIT,

00:41alongside Yuan Chao from Google's AI Lab in Mountain View, California. Their methodology

00:47diverges significantly from conventional machine translation techniques, which typically depend

00:53on vast datasets. Notably, a German research team demonstrated a few years prior that a similar

00:59approach, utilizing much smaller databases, could facilitate the translation of rarer languages

01:05lacking extensive textual data. The key lies in devising alternative constraints for the machine

01:11learning model that aren't solely reliant on database size. Building on this foundation,

01:18Luo and his collaborators have now advanced the capability of machine translation to

01:22decipher languages that are entirely lost. The crucial constraint they employed is based on the

01:28known patterns of linguistic evolution. The underlying principle is that languages only evolve in

01:34specific, predictable ways. For instance, related languages often exhibit similar distributions of

01:40symbols, and cognate words tend to maintain the same character order. By integrating these inherent

01:47linguistic rules into the system, deciphering a language becomes considerably simpler, provided the

01:53parent language is identifiable. The team rigorously tested their innovative technique on two historically

02:00lost languages, Linear B and Ugaritic. Linear B, primarily used for administrative purposes between

02:071600 and 1110 BC, encoded Mycenaean Greek. Ugaritic, a Semitic language spoken in Ugarit, Syria,

02:15from around 2000 BC, was discovered in 1929. Linguists have long established that Linear B represents an

02:24early form of ancient Greek, an Ugaritic and early variant of Hebrew. By providing this foundational

02:30knowledge and integrating the inherent constraints of linguistic evolution, the system achieved remarkable

02:36accuracy in translating both languages. This represents a truly impressive achievement, elevating machine

02:43translation to an unprecedented level. Furthermore, it prompts intriguing questions regarding other lost

02:50languages, especially those that have yet to be deciphered.

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