UK researchers solve ancient scroll using AI

[@JacobBrabender]

My left ear is really impressed with this guy's knowledge of the scroll. Cool stuff.

[@loomicloud]

I was literally just having issues with my earbuds not syncing volume, had to put them in the case and take them backnout again, only for the next video to gaslight me into thibking they're actually broken, until the woman talks again. I kinda hate videos that do that.

[@tdghffthgf4871]

my right ear is too

[@rolotheyolo]

pls stop the one sided pan 💀

[@YouCanCallMeReTro]

@@loomicloud It always be the local news channels that have you questioning your audio device.

[@ecs300]

why is it always the left ear??

[@Competitive_Antagonist]

My left ear really enjoyed this.

[@vicpro1]

I can't believe how a "student-run newspaper for the University of Kentucky" would fail so badly at mixing audio on a publication...

[@SlumberBear2k]

@@vicpro1 you can just run it through software and use AI to restore the right ear signal out of the left ear signal.

[@Alex-bi5rz]

@@SlumberBear2k or you could just mono it...

[@vicpro1]

@@SlumberBear2k Why would you need AI when you can easily make it stereo?

[@MAST]

@@vicpro1 I mean it's kinda stereo but only one line, if that would be mono it would be in 2 lines same audio. Someone either deleted one line either on accident or on purspose but forgot/didn't know have to set it to mono, or didn't know audio was from stereo mic or recorder with more lines. Also, stereo audio is trash, especially music.

[@julio5prado]

Extraordinary project to bring back to life a unique library that opens a direct window to the knowledge and thought of the ancient world, the origin of our civilization. Thanks for investing in such unique and amazing project

[@ChiggaChangWang]

Imagine spending 20 years to solve a problem. And then someone invents singing to solve it in hours. Old head ain’t discover shit. The man who invented the ai. Got more right then you now😂😂😂

[@marcfruchtman9473]

Absolutely incredible. Would really like to be able to see what these scrolls contain.

[@Ubu987]

So many lost works, often only known through their titles, or sparse quotes, or not known at all. The works of Aristotle, for example. All we have are lecture notes taken by his students and organized according to topic. None of his written works survived. It is hinted that he wrote in verse, like Plato.

[@wordscapes5690]

@PseudeaEpimetheusproof or shush

[@lorenzomizushal3980]

​@PseudeaEpimetheus i automate the process of summing up numbers in my excel sheets. So all automations aren't a failure.

[@wordscapes5690]

@PseudeaEpimetheus proof or shush

[@tondekoddar7837]

Yes, I wish we could have even faintest clue for even few letters from those scrolls. Too bad we don't.

[@Jana-se4kv]

What i don't understand is.. if the process of digitally unwrapping the scroll and reading it using machine learning is layers upon layers of abstractions, then what is the percentage of confidence that the content the neural network calculated is ACTUALLY the content that has been written down thousands of years ago. I don't see confidence factor being discussed in the PR for this project at all, even though it's always integral to machine learning.

[@PatriciaPalmer-o3e]

I'm 77, and there's always one of you 👋🤣 Like clockwork.

[@Jana-se4kv]

@@PatriciaPalmer-o3e What?

[@augustday9483]

​@@PatriciaPalmer-o3e It's a legitimate question. Why are you being dismissive of Jana?

[@TheRealityWarper08]

​@@PatriciaPalmer-o3e Your age doesn't validate your point in this conversation. As a matter of fact, I'd argue it acrually does the opposite, considering we all know how old people are with technology.

[@austinsnow7383]

Im thinking about what you said but what you’re proposing seems to imply that the AI is making up what it is displaying or being read. Im not sure if the images displayed were actually created by the AI but if they are they seem to have imperfections that humans would make and I’m sure they likely accounted for bias against it falsifying input but you’re right, it’s totally possible that its doing that. I’d love to see a research paper on this to see more details about how this was done

[@burtlangoustine1]

first transcribe reads, "Burn After Reading"

[@GeorgeG-is6ov]

Haha

[@Sedgewise47]

😆

[@vvanderer]

But it's Semitic,written backward. It says "read after burning"

[@AdamRafeedie]

These are people from the UK?

[@mwj5368]

This video is nice but It's old news. They didn't "solve" an ancient scroll, no scrolls in their entirety have been read. Some words have been deciphered so the title should read something like instead of "solve" should be "UK researchers are progressing in their attempt to solve but haven't solved any ancient scroll yet with AI".

[@rogermiller2159]

Your right. They shouldn’t have tried.

[@tondekoddar7837]

@@rogermiller2159This "content" creator shouldn't have done so. I hope THIS will be read by AI and NOT SUGGESTED FOR ANYONE TO WATCH, EVER. Please.

[@nate_d376]

Probably just some shopping list anyways.....

[@mikeyforrester6887]

I haven't seen such in depth interviews with the computer scientists. But I don't believe this is new. Just riding the ai hype train

[@antaguana]

@@oceanichelicopter4240 They did not solve the problem of being unable to read the scrolls. They solved 0.01% of the problem of not being able to read scrolls and have now read a few words. Solved would mean there is a link in the description to a transcript of all the scrolls so you can read their message. If I gave you a 200 page text book which only had 10 words and 79 letters (numbers are purely an example) legeble would you say you could read that book and tell me what it said? No you would say I can tell you this word says purple but I have no idea what this book is about.

[@echognomecal6742]

Props to any of those involved in saving/storing them who had to deal with people telling them they're trash that would never reveal anything.

[@echognomecal6742]

@@MangaGamified Are you referring to private citizens? I don't understand.

[@dddaaa6965]

@@echognomecal6742 to the fantasy he made up in his head

[@postmortem6630]

@@echognomecal6742 ​ @dddaaa6965 (Ethel Ross Barker noted in her 1908 Buried Herculaneum) "Appearance of the rolls. - A large number of papyri, after being buried eighteen centuries, have been found in the Villa named after them. In appearance the rolls resembled lumps of charcoal; and many were thrown away as such. "

[@the99thtimelord16]

It would appear I've found you hear being a dramatic tool. I encourage you to find a way to get rid of this trait as soon as possible, as it distorts the world around you as well as everything you see and everything you believe. How you would go about doing it, however, would be impossible.

[@echognomecal6742]

@@the99thtimelord16 I'm sure that makes sense to you, but it's rather disturbing & I wish you well in your recovery.

[@GeneSavage]

Fascinating information. One small technical note? Your interviews are only in the left channel. Might want to sum everything to mono for future videos. Still, thanks for sharing this. There's no telling what they may find, and I'm here for it!

[@eol251]

"interviews" When only two interviews are on left channel but the rest of them are good. Just a arrogant comment.

[@ameddayr]

@@eol251there are three people being interviewed on camera in this video, and all their audio has the same issue, that it only appears in the left channel. it's fair and constructive criticism, i don't see any arrogance involved here.

[@GeneSavage]

@@ameddayr Thank you. I was trying to help! Chances are these folks have TV news experience, because many TV stories are recorded this way, creating a kind of "multitrack" recording with just stereo tracks. When TV stations went to stereo, they suddenly had to remember to mix down to mono for the viewers. If anything, it's a compliment: they seem like pros with experience.

[@aidenator2]

Also the narrator needs the high-end to be filtered or cut off a little. Very early piercing imo.

[@minartson]

@@eol251 Arrogant comment This production quality is complete garbago in 2024, there are 14 year old KZbinrs who look like pros compared to thisShould have made AI make the video

[@AaronGlenn88]

All that work only to find out it’s a chariots extended warranty

[@nickcarroll8565]

They used to harass people by carrier pigeon for extended warranties.

[@gargoyled_drake]

They really did f up in thinking we were more interested in knowing how they did it, rather than what was on the scroll. What was revealed ?? LMAO

[@danielbriggs991]

In case you didn't notice, the word they discerned this week was πορφύρας, or porphyry, purple. No wonder they showed it in purple! 😁

[@julesgosnell9791]

old news, terrible sound, misleading title

[@jameshughes3014]

UK here means university of kentucky, I'm guessing. I don't think they were trying to trick anybody. But you're right, this news is 2100 years old lol.

[@chrisdahler5557]

There's no sound. Are all Comments bots now?

[@urmum3773]

@@jameshughes3014UK means the United Kindom to the majority of people in America as well

[@jameshughes3014]

@@urmum3773That's true, but not everyone is capable of understanding that sometimes an acronym has more than one meaning. You got to explain to them.

[@PossiblePanda]

I had my left earbud out and I thought he was just silent

[@lairheron9489]

This is like the oldest data storage recovery from an ancient hard drive

[@zteaxon7787]

Very cool but why not show results?

[@SoulDelSol]

Probably a recipe

[@viktoralferov2874]

it is for brits upper class only

[@synaestesia-bg3ew]

Probably because the scrolls say,"vote for Trump"😂

[@Ubu987]

@@synaestesia-bg3ew Probably because they contain information that could lead to the arrest and imprisonment of Hillary Clinton. Very convenient of that volcano to erupt....

[@StupidusMaximusTheFirst]

Because that's... classified. 😂

[@aaron5z]

Your burnt letters are no longer safe.

[@derrickj.freeman276]

Amazing. Bless you for doing this!

[@billyraybar]

Misleading title. The only thing deciphered so far, is one single word “porphyras”, which means ‘purple’’.

[@Aimsport-video]

2 gallons milk, a dozen eggs, a loaf of bread, sandle laces, wine flask patch kit

[@lostpony4885]

Herculaneum is amazing. First peek of real bathhouse with cherub plaster, just so superb. Recreations were left behind.

[@quentinstacy35]

People of Kentucky should be so proud of Brent Seales, his team and the University of Kentucky for leading this fantastic endeavour. Hoping they find lost works from Archimedes

[@HalkerVeil]

Also, stop editing on a mono phone speaker so you can tell the audio isn't correctly balanced to the right.

[@cirusMEDIA]

This is NOT AI... it's simply an example of applying Machine Learning to a real-world problem. Everyone is talking AI AI AI and 99.9% of them don't even know what AI really means from an engineering or problem-solving perspective.

[@axle.student]

Was thinking exactly the same :) I'm a bit over the everything is AI rubbish too.

[@ToxicFruitSnack]

“overcome the burning” sounds like a metal band tbh

[@utterube]

Add an comma in there and an it could be porno horror.

[@TheObeyMayhem]

what virtual unwrapping is to find where the pages are, model them and pull them out so we can make up what they say for monetary gain.

[@manulinux]

My left speaker is not working, so whenever the interviewed guys are talking I ear no sound. If it wasn't for people actually telling in the comments that the sound is only left sided, I wouldn't have ever know.

[@nancyrat3858]

I thought I had water clogged in my right ear after showering so I spent a good 3 minutes hopping on one foot and slapping the left side of my head. Thank you university of kentucky.

[@moonman2022]

Next time, just turn the headphones around. ^_^

[@annie_the_great]

I have never followed a research project so closely. Never have the implications for success been so high.

[@muffy469]

I've stopped following research closely. Almost 30 years ago they said we were days away from being able to clone mammoths, so here we are and where are the mammoths? It's the same thing with all other archeology things, ''we're SO close to making a break through! Any day now!'' And decades later not a sliver of progress has been made.

[@annie_the_great]

@@muffy469 That's a problem with research generally speaking. Everything is perpetually 10 years away because that time estimate is short enough to keep investors interested and long enough to buy time until the next investing round. That's just the incentives we have in place in our capitalist system. I will propose that this problem for different. The research has been a passion project spanning decades and the research team is comprised of a seasoned time of experts. My hope is that the scroll prize contest yielded the results they need but I wouldn't expect to see a fully deciphered scroll anytime soon. It just depends what they found. I know they were able to decipher individual words so that strikes me as promising. So, I do feel that most lofty research projects are doomed to fail. The entire anti-aging community has been promising the moon and sky for decades and they haven't brought a single therapy to market. Let's hope you're wrong about this one or that this is sustained interest to keep it going for the long term so that if not us then our kids or grandkids can read the scrolls.

[@annie_the_great]

@@muffy469Have you seen the latest update?

[@JFGames365]

@@muffy469 You're funny. Unintentionally, but still.

[@antaguana]

"Never have the implications for success been so high" Really? Never? There have been some pretty big implications in certain research projects of the past... The manhattan project comes to mind. The implications for success for that were / are pretty high.

[@rickwhite4137]

Maybe the sound should be fixed before posting the video?

[@PSALMfourtysix]

Looks like a half burned log out of someone's fireplace.

[@SlickRickTPB]

which would also be carbon

[@PSALMfourtysix]

@SlickRickTPB coal is used for everything, even global warming BS. Carbon, sure.

[@GoldBearanimationsYT]

Percy ate two servings of grain today 😂

[@Karim-ik5ij]

Carnivore dieters devastated.

[@wizwonder99]

I'm so confused lol

[@mhxxd4]

What?

[@okolepuka3134]

urethra he said "my water is Wet" percy was then sent 2 the desert for 200 yrs on his return he still insisted his water was wet

[@mhxxd4]

@@okolepuka3134 are yall talking about that book series that weird girls read?

[@JBo77]

So wtf did the scrolls say???

[@stevensims3342]

Just incredible. The knowledge lost in the ancient days set us back alone.

[@Gizmetti]

No it didn't. You're literally on a PC that is talking to devices in space while making this comment. What a silly statement.

[@stevensims3342]

@@Gizmetti and all of that could have come earlier. What a foolish and narrow-minded reply.

[@Gizmetti]

Not true at all. What a silly thing to say.@@stevensims3342

[@TerraTrix_]

So, what's up with the burnt wood?

[@skipsch]

there ought to be way way more stories like this. This is how to be using this technology

[@whong09]

Imagine working on the same project for 20 years. Bravo.

[@MangaGamified]

Anyone can stay as long as it's US government funded

[@calibos3329]

Pretty crazy, but not at all that uncommon.

[@tortisrot]

For those wondering why there is no sound, it is only on the left ear.

[@toi_techno]

Amazing Well done Kentucky!

[@teecchnoboy]

my left ear is so happy now

[@OLBarbok]

It's an elder scroll!

[@skurrvie3928]

So they train the AI to spot patterns in static then get amazed when it does so. I wonder if they also trained the AI in that language or just it's alphabet. That's an important difference. Another thing, if they only trained the AI on say the english alphabet, would it then spot words only with english characters?

[@handlesaresuperghey]

computer is just making shit up and we're like "hmm yeah that makes sense"

[@luke8324]

Note to the video editor: the audio for the interviews are stereo but only coming from L (probably a mono source turned into stereo but the L is not duplicated to R).

[@monicam.8006]

I'm wondering what's inside the scrolls? As a library for the rich, I imagine it has Plato and Aristotle and Ovid or maybe Cicero. Do they have ancient maps in them? What new greco-roman plays from 2000 years ago can we now add to our knowledge-base? When will we, the common people, learn what is in those scrolls?

[@youngmasterzhi]

Next, I want them to create an AI that can read a phone book without opening the pages

[@American_Psycho707]

thats a good point

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[@dworkina.9015]

I can only hear in my right ear... Thanks a lot for the comments clarifying the pantomime.

[@PeterParker-df6ce]

Oh shit a straight up constructive use of AI

[@H.Hansen]

my left ear enjoyed it, now my right ear is mad because he has no idea what he just said

[@JohnDoe-zz3hj]

that girl at the end in the lab jacket is not gonna be happy at what she is about to decipher.

[@ljb8157]

This is so exciting! I absolutely can't wait to hear what was written! I hope they can get them deciphered in my lifetime. I never thought that would be a possibility. Well done, everyone. You humans continue to impress me!

[@KylejvT]

I'm sad to say it took me a couple mins before I realised why everyone from the UK had American accents... But otherwise pretty awesome tech!

[@Makemineadoubles]

Really enjoyed the neo4j examples nodes and it's differentiation with rel dbs. I wonder if that was the text they found on the papyrus :D

[@beemerwt4185]

Crazy you guys have such advanced technology but can't seem to correct the audio in editing.

[@vvanderer]

Only one channel was available when the scrolls were written

[@stap1er]

Misleading title

[@myself3209]

Im impressed someone even identified that pieces of charcoal as a scroll

[@bobbajosmith9851]

Wow the professor at UK! what an incredible organisation

[@antaguana]

the audio on this is almost as hard to decifer as the scrolls good thing there are captions so I can see 3 experts say the same thing in almost the same way. Also the whiteboards are hilarious! Best part of the video. Especially the graph of letters revealed going negative with "LOL" note. It's like the "WOW!" signal note in the radio printout but funny.

[@Tenajeh]

Audio from 0:17 to 2:25 is only of the left channel. That's kinda disturbing when you listen with headphones. And again during the following quotations from the experts. But it's still a hecking interesting report!

[@heatherlinakridge]

Incredible work. 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for your dedication to this project. 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

[@Hogger280]

With AI, you can make that scroll say anything!

[@thecrapehanger24]

👁👅👁

[@CronoGtx]

Hell, with photoshop you can make that scroll say anything

[@N30NR10Tx]

Lol wow. When I saw this pop into my KZbin feed it was at around 860 views. Then I posted this to reddit and 24hours later it's at over 100,000 views. Nice! This kind of information is valuable. It needs to be heard and seen. Great work KYU!!!!

[@AllAmericanGuyExpert]

My left brain is still wondering what the scrolls contain and how they can decipher them. My right brain is suffering from Herculaneum auditorium unilateral scientificum.

[@thomasowen5785]

Technology is progressing at an astounding rate. Now, in 2024, we only need one of our two ears to process massive amounts of information

[@BokoGreat]

Came to the comments section to see if my headphones were working ok. Thanks for the tech support 😂

[@tac7826]

How sad the only ancient Roman library that wasnt looted or emptied has its books in the form of coal.😢

[@WildflowerAnn]

That’s some wild technology! Congratulations!

[@aldin.2714]

I was confused to why there are comments talking about their Left ear till i put on a headset myself and finally understood 😂

[@MrPezsgess]

This puts the "you have to pay for PDF reader thing" to another level.

[@SharrenDabs]

spent all that money on the machinery but had none left for audio equipment.

[@Zuhma]

Imagine doing all of this work just to find out it's some bread recipe

[@christoskylar2601]

What's with the single channel sound?

[@phizicks]

it's 2024 and we still deal with not only recording in left channel but the editor doesn't set it to mono before uploads......

[@googolplex1]

I take my hat off to you for this incredible work!

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for telling this story. AI is such an amazing and all purpose tool.

[@trealexander5271]

This is great work but my right ear got very lonely

[@richardhanson7412]

The AI concluded that the scrolls said, "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."

[@jg-bordfronco2925]

and when they were finally able to translate the scrolls, it reads "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine"

[@TheReallyRealShow]

South Park is going to have a field day with this.

[@Cookiecutter160]

Just imagine how many manuscripts, books that have been damaged, the contents can be recovered. Incredible.

[@tanquard]

Decipher the writing, then show your work. This was a bit of a waste of time

[@dopedonald6976]

i really just thought my sound system messed up wtf

[@grigorios21]

wow so much work just to read an ancient shopping list

[@chenilleoneil1289]

Well done scientists. So many would have put this in the too hard basket.

[@weareallbeingwatched4602]

This is amazing.

[@JoshuaHults]

Contents: “dear diary, today Achilles and I walked our turtle..”

[@IIStaffyII]

Had to download a stereo to mono extension to actually enjoy watching this.

[@D.pietertje]

left left side of my headphone is broken. So i was confused about the sounds first but then i saw the comments...

[@bvs1q]

Whoever picked the thumbnail knew what they were doing

[@MrSlanderer]

What? A petrified horse hoof?

[@DeniedClimax]

My man found charcoal

[@Phakepasco]

nice piece of wood. explain why the top of the scroll has less layers?

[@JamesSmith-er2pn]

Thank for sharing this "breakthrough" that happened two decades ago///still interesting though

[@AI_Ghostwriter]

Yo cool vid but you gotta lower the high ends on your mic, just get the equalizer out and lower the 16k like most of the way down and the 8k down to like half of what it is now.

[@JacqueBougie]

I read the comments about people's left ears before watching and was confused. I immediately understood once he started talking XD

[@bogoney]

I remember seeing this in a documentary. It was very interesting.

[@MrGunderfly]

"sometimes its hard to have conversations about things that are difficult".. -professor of CS at U Kansas Brent Seals

[@MannyDer]

the left side of my living room really enjoyed this

[@brianphillips1864]

Great to see the progress on this!

[@billgates3699]

And yet Western Digital is telling me my hard drive would be impossible to recover my data from 🙄

[@CrispyCleanPressureWashing]

Can figure out whats on some ancient scroll, but can't figure out how to hit "RIGHT" on the adobe premiere audio channels.