Can ChatGPT translate the language used in ancient Mesopotamian civilization?
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ChatGPT, an interactive AI developed by OpenAI, can output natural sentences corresponding to prompts entered by humans. ChatGPT is compatible with modern words such as English and Japanese, but when Mr. Zhang , a blogger, actually tried it, whether the `` Akkadian language '', which was thought to have been spoken before Christ, could be translated. I introduced the situation.
jan's stuff: Translating Akkadian clay tablet with chatGPT?
http://www.janromme.com/2023/05/ChaptGPT-transaltion-of-Akkadian-texts.html
Mr. Jean went to the Babylon exhibition held in London in 2008, and he seems to have tried to take a picture of the lithograph that was on display at that time. However, he was interrupted by a meddlesome person who seemed to misread the 'flash prohibited' sign as 'photography prohibited', and he was unable to leave it as a record.
More than ten years later, when I relied on my memory to recall the slate, I found that the slate was related to the biblical account of King Manasseh of Judah. This involved the following passage from the Second Chronicles of the Old Testament:
Jehovah kept speaking to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.
So Jehovah sent the army chiefs of the king of Assyria against them. The military chiefs seized Manasseh with hooks, bound him with two copper skeins, and brought him to Babylon.
In his affliction, Manasseh entrusted his petitions to Jehovah God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
As he continued to pray to the Lord, the Lord, moved by his entreaties, granted his request and restored him to his kingship in Jerusalem. Then Manasseh realized that Jehovah was the true God.
“At this time, the city of Babylon was also under Assyrian control. I wish I could find it,' he thought, and decided to look for the lithograph.
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Among the multiple services that archive content related to ancient civilizations, Mr. Jean's attention was on a service called 'Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDIL: Cuneiform Digital Library)'. However, the content posted here about Manasseh was not translated, so a search for ' manasseh ' yielded no hits.
So Mr. Zhang used ChatGPT. Mr. Jean first asked ChatGPT, 'Can you browse catalogs of ancient lithographs such as Babylonia, Assyria, and Mitanni?'
Even if Mr. Jean tries to manually search in CDIL, the search word remains unknown. So Mr. Jean asked, 'Can you guess how the name of King Manasse of Judah was written in Babylonian cuneiform?'
ChatGPT then responded, bearing in mind that there is some uncertainty in the text translation process, the notation ???????????????? (ma-na-si-i or ma-an-si-i) I can infer that.' When Mr. Zhang checked Wikipedia, there was a notation '???????????????? (me-na-si-i)', so this is also 'me-na-si-i' 'ma-na-si-i' ' It seems that he searched in CDIL with three notations 'ma-an-si-i'.
The lithograph `` RINAP 4
So, Mr. Zhang asked ChatGPT to translate the whole lithograph. The image below shows the situation at that time, and in response to Mr. Zhang's question, ``Can you translate this sentence into English?'', ChatGPT replied, ``49. They built a temple on a hill.'' , they built it firmly,' and '51. Like Apsu , it rose from the center of the earth.' However, ChatGPT seems to have output about 'Menasî king in Assur' instead of King Manase of Judah.
Mr. Zhang said, 'Oh my God, can you translate not only words but also the full text of Akkadian? Now I don't have time to examine all the lithographs and translate them with ChatGPT, but a plug that automatically translates ancient cuneiform lithographs I dream of building an inn, such as Akkadian, Sumerian, Elamite, etc., that can be proofread by real translators who are familiar with the language. Imagine a trained ChatGPT version 5 or 6. Maybe one day we can outsource the translation to machines and we humans can do the more enjoyable job of just reading and commenting on text. No,' he said.
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