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In Today’s edition:

📜 AI translates 5,000-year-old rock

🌏 The West vs Asia: Who is more concerned about AI?

🔧 AI tool that kills Excel

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Archeologists use AI to translate 5,000 YEAR-old tablets 📜

A team of researchers has used a Neural Machine Learning (NML) model to translate tablets dating back to 2500 BC. The writings on the tablets are written using cuneiform, a script created by using wedge-shaped symbols pressed in wet clay.

In the paper published by the journal PNAS Nexus, from the Oxford University Press, researchers say the tablets are an Akkadian script, which was an ancient language spoken in ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

This new AI technology will greatly accelerate the speed at which these tablets can be translated in the future. Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets are archived for translation. These tablets describe the political, social, economic, and scientific history of ancient Mesopotamia.

The goal of the neural machine translation (NMT) is to be part of a human–machine collaboration – a pipeline that assists scholars to translate ancient texts. It’s like a super Google translate!

The West feels less positive about AI than the East 🌏

In a recent study done by the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Index, researchers found a significant gap in understanding:

78% of Chinese citizens agreed that AI has more benefits than drawbacks

76% of Saudis and 71% of Indians.

Only 35% of Americans feel positive about AI.

Similarly: Great Britain 38%, Germany and Australia 37%, and France 31%.

Read the report here.

AI tool that kills Excel 🔧

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Step 1:

Import data from anywhere using 'Actions'

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Step 2:

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