Ancient Culture # 5: Machine finds out who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls

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            As part of such ancient cultures, there’s always an author, but even the Old Testament is only divided by the leaders of the ancient bible, and even some principle foundations that occur, but Ancient Cultures always remained a mystery, and unravelling it is like something out of the Uncharted series where Nathan Drake attempts to find buried treasure while the villains fight and fly after Nathan Drake in cool cinematic trickery. In the real world, we all wish there was some way to have that Indiana Jones type adventure, but it seems that AI beat us to the punch.

            According to Art news, Sarah Cascone, reports, “the artifacts were likely transcribed by two different writers, despite the fact that all the handwriting looks similar.

“We will never know their names. But after 70 years of study, this feels as if we can finally shake hands with them through their handwriting,” Mladen Popović, a bible studies professor and a member of the three-person team from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands behind the study, said in a statement. “This opens a new window on the ancient world that can reveal much more intricate connections between the scribes that produced the scrolls.” (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/artificial-intelligence-suggests-dead-sea-scrolls-written-multiple-people-1961272)

            According to NewScientist.com, on April 21st, 2021 “The Great Isaiah scroll is a copy of the Book of Isaiah that is found in both the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament. The copy was completed around the 2nd century BC, and is written using the Hebrew alphabet.” (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2275298-ai-analysis-shows-two-scribes-wrote-one-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/#ixzz6t3C625wx)

            Now considering that AI has doubled in the past twenty years, or increased toward sentient intelligence, the power of AI has become an unwieldy source, but with analyzing data, AI is on the rise. “The A.I. then considered each alef’s shape and curvature to deduce information about the original scribe’s biomechanical traits, like the way they held their pen. “The ancient ink traces relate directly to a person’s muscle movement and are person specific,” the study’s co-author Lambert Schomaker, a professor of computer science and A.I., said in a statement.” (https://www.newscientist.com/article/2275298-ai-analysis-shows-two-scribes-wrote-one-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/#ixzz6t3C625wx)

            The possibility of a world that knew when and where the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls could be used to find out who really wrote the Bible. Again, much of religion is supposed to be left to faith, and how faith can represent only one side, shrouded in mystery. With this discovery, it doesn’t mean this is a bad thing. 
            If AI can really find out who wrote the dead sea scrolls, this could be used on many ancient texts. What I find fascinating is the depth of AI’s capability to read what others can’t, but maybe the AI can make a mistake. 

            So, to think about it critically, writing and alphabet are where humans must find out if there is a discrepancy in what the AI can see. So, that’s still a reminder that maybe a machine can be wrong about things. But like all ancient cultures, humans still cling to belief, and if someone refuses to believe a machine, it’s not bad.

Technology can help a great deal, but machines can be wrong. When Microsoft tried to open its AI to the public, it spouted Nazi propaganda and wanted to kill humanity.

(image found on https://www.extremetech.com/computing/225506-microsoft-yanks-new-ai-twitter-bot-after-it-begins-spreading-nazi-propaganda)

So, this might be a bad thing. What this can only mean is that maybe there is some reason to doubt that AI could be wrong about who wrote each particular text. What needs to be discussed is that in ancient texts studying a lexicon and vocabulary is where AI can misread things. AI is a product of human development, and sometimes when a machine reads your work through written text, it can pronounce the words wrong as written by human ingenuity.

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