Decoding Language: AI and the Mysteries of Ciphers

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFW14zSYiFY

Prof. Greg Kondrak is a computer scientist who used Machine Learning to help decode the Voynich Manuscript and Dorabella Cipher.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:03:07 Overview of the difficulty of the Voynich Manuscript

00:04:53 There is no other document like Voynich

00:11:17 The controversy of the Voynich

00:12:38 All language is decipherment

00:27:51 "It is not simple at all"

00:30:49 The Dorabella cipher

00:33:05 Voynich may not be a human language

00:35:05 Universal concepts in language (fighting Chomsky)

00:43:37 ChatGPT knows nothing

00:44:41 AI doesn't have "truth"

00:47:09 Multiple language theory (Voynich)

00:48:34 Artificial intelligence lacks motivations

00:51:48 What rivals the Voynich?

00:53:05 "Puzzles made me a better scientist"

00:56:26 The Zodiac cipher

01:01:27 The problem of "language understanding" has been solved

01:06:48 Training AI in ethics

01:13:53 Chinese and English are superior (analytically)

01:19:35 Proving what the Voynich was and wasn't

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