Artificial intelligence has deciphered the mysterious manuscript of the XV century

2018-01-30 10:06

Artificial intelligence has deciphered the mysterious manuscript of the XV century
Scientists from the University of Alberta, Canada, transcribed the beginning of the mysterious Voynich manuscript with the help of artificial intelligence

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The Voynich manuscript or the Voynich Manuscript is an illustrated Codex, written probably in the first half of the XV century by an unknown author in an unknown language using an unknown alphabet. The book bears the name of the dealer Wilfried Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, reports Rus.Media.

One of the researchers, Greg Kondrakov said that the first thing was to find out which language ancient manuscript. To do this, scientists took the Universal Declaration of human rights, translated into 380 languages, and using sophisticated statistical procedures were able to deduce the algorithm that recognizes the language of the document with an accuracy of 97 percent.

Using the same algorithm for reading the Voynich manuscript, the experts put forward the hypothesis that the manuscript is written in Hebrew. However, some scientists reacted to this statement with suspicion, as publication in a peer-reviewed journal on the results of work at the moment yet.

In further examining the manuscript the researchers came to the conclusion that the author changed the order of the letters in each word, and the vowels are rejected altogether. Thus, according to the findings of a computer algorithm, the decrypted first sentence of artifact sounds:

“She gave advice to a priest, one owner, me and my people.”

Further, the text could not be deciphered, however, linguists were able to translate some individual words, for example, “peasant”, “light”, “air” and “fire.”

Also at the University of Alberta noted that one artificial intelligence a little, because the only people will be able to understand the meaning of individual words.