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

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'll have more faith once it can reliably switch back and forth between Unicode symbols and their underlying HTML entities. It understands the concept of emojis and can use them appropriately, but I can tell there's still some underlying issues in the token/object model for non-ASCII symbols.