Ep. 11: How a Computer Scientist Uses AI to Read Lost Literature

Brent Seales, a University of Kentucky Computer Science Professor, uses AI to read ancient texts, such as the En-Gedi scroll and scrolls from Herculaneum. The podcast discusses the challenges of digitizing and analyzing fragile scrolls using image recognition and AI tools. It explores the use of tomography and machine learning to decipher lost literature from antiquity and highlights the potential of AI in uncovering hidden knowledge in ancient texts.