A bunch of funded projects to unblock some long-standing backlogs in translations using AI would be interesting; especially when AI models can do a reasonable first pass at interpretation & significance, not just translation. There are major repositories of untranslated ancient work in many places, like the Oxyrhynchus Papyri https://oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Mollick suggests funding AI translation of backlogged ancient texts
AIEthan Mollick argues that funded projects could use AI to clear long-standing translation backlogs, including untranslated ancient texts. He says models can already give a reasonable first pass at interpretation and significance, not just translation.
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