Ancient Greek secrets unlocked by AI chatbot Apollo
a large language model called apollo fills gaps in ancient greek papyrus fragments to aid scholars in uncovering new historical details.
the austrian academy of science, in partnership with french ai lab mistral and technology services firm sail reply, developed apollo, a large language model for ancient greek. trained on 600 million historical greek words, apollo fills in gaps in papyrus fragments, helping scholars identify relevant fragments and new research avenues. the model is freely available to academics and could potentially uncover new details about historical events and practices. if successful, the technique could be applied to other ancient languages.