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Could modern computers decipher hieroglyphics if we never found the Rosetta Stone? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by saywhatisabigw@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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What if we never found the Rosetta Stone and could not read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Could computers or AI decipher them today?

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[–] dan1101@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I would say no, the computers would have no dataset/code to decode a picture-based language like hieroglyphics. I mean if you programmed and tailored the computer algorithms enough it could decode them, but you'd practically have to take all our knowledge of hieroglyphics and turn that into code and data to brute-force the computer to do the translation.