Birthday Bash Live Panel Discussion: AI in Ancient Studies

In the tapestry of existence, Artificial Intelligence is a new thread which is getting entwined with every industry, every academic discipline, and many facets of life. AI products are beginning to exert influence in numerous aspects of everyday life; it is altering how we live, think, and work, stretching its strands into areas that were once thought to be exclusively the purview of human expertise.

One particularly interesting frontier is the use of AI in humanities research. Research has previously relied exclusively on human analysis and interpretation, however, with the development of AI, it is now increasingly outsourced to machine learning technologies and has the potential for disrupting traditional research and teaching methods. Recently, researchers at DeepMind and Ca' Foscari University of Venice utilized a neural network dubbed Ithaca to recreate missing pieces of inscriptions and assign dates and places to ancient texts. In another instance, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, a professor…