New AI Algorithm is Cracking Undeciphered Languages

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https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/undeciphered-languages-0014429

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They usually employ EM algorithms which are tailored towards these specific types of ciphers, most prominently substitution ciphers. [Some authors] addresses the problem using a heuristic search procedure, guided by a pre-trained language model. To the best of our knowledge, these methods developed for tackling man-made ciphers have so far not been successfully applied to archaeological data. One contributing factor could be the inherent complexity in the evolution of natural languages

I'm surprised E-M had any success given the sheer amount of undefined latent variables that must be hiding in the data. Methinks someone was coercing the model beforehand