Famously Indecipherable Ancient Manuscript That Baffled Even Nazi Enigma Code Breakers Translated By AI
Now that’s unexpected — and pretty cool!
A mysterious ancient text that’s defeated generations of human translators might have finally been decrypted by artificial intelligence.
The Voynich manuscript is famous for being indecipherable. The 240-page text is written in an unknown language, in an unknown script, scrambled by an unknown code, as CTVNews put it. It’s a puzzle with no way in. Even the Bletchley Park cryptographers, renowned for cracking the Enigma code used by the Nazis during World War II, couldn’t make any headway.
Now, Greg Kondrak, a computer scientist in the AI lab at the University of Alberta—the same one behind the DeepStack system that made waves last year by beating professional poker players—claims he’s begun to crack it open. MORE…
