#language model

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#ancient greek #apollo #artificial intelligence #austrian academy of science #beam search #compression #deflate #gzip #historical restoration #manuscript preservation #mistral #northeastern university

Can gzip be a language model?
Gzip generates coherent text without neural networks by predicting byte sequences.
Nathan · 1m
AI unlocks secrets hidden in ancient Greek papyrus
A new language model trained on 600 million ancient Greek words helps scholars restore damaged manuscripts faster than ever before.
WIRED · 1m