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Thea Sommerschield

@TSommerschield

🌍 Assistant Prof @Durham_Uni @Durham_Classics
🌊 Pythia, Ithaca, Aeneas (slipped past the Sirens...)
🔎 Epigraphy by day, AI by night, Mediterranean always
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📢 CfP: "Epigraphy & Artificial Intelligence"
Submissions are open for papers to our parallel session at #CIEGL2027 (Bologna, 30 Aug–4 Sept 2027)
Full call here: site.unibo.it/epigrafia-grec…
#Epigraphy #DigitalHumanities #Classics #AI
site.unibo.it Panel The 17th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy will be held in Bologna from August 30 to September 4, 2027
Thea Sommerschield @TSommerschield
We're making a (epigraphic) habit out of this... 😉 Introducing the Predicting the Past Skill in @antigravity: grounding Gemini directly in our specialised Aeneas and Ithaca models to study Greek + Latin inscriptions interactively.
With @iassael & Zoi Tsangalidou @GoogleDeepMind
Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind Jul 7
🏛️ We’re unveiling a new way to converse with the ancient world.

By grounding Gemini directly in our expert models Aeneas and Ithaca, our Predicting the Past Skill in Google @antigravity lets historians study Greek and Latin texts using plain English. 🧵
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Thea Sommerschield @TSommerschield
Ithaca's not back - it's better.
📢 Introducing #AENEAS, the first AI model for contextualising Roman inscriptions, designed to help historians better interpret, attribute and restore fragmentary texts 🔎
Read the paper, published today in @Nature, at nature.com/articles/s4158…
www.nature.com Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks Nature - Aeneas, a generative neural network trained on ancient texts, helps historians contextualize inscriptions and perform epigraphic tasks, offering an improved starting point for historical...
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Thea Sommerschield @TSommerschield
Enjoyed speaking with @Gizmodo about how AI is aiding historians' work on ancient texts (like the Vesuvius Challenge!), and sharing insights from our recent #ML4AL workshop @aclmeeting 😊 Thank you for the thoughtful interview.
Gizmodo Verified account @Gizmodo Aug 28, 2024
How AI Is Deciphering Lost Scrolls From the Roman Empire gizmodo.com/ai-herculaneum…
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