(06-05-2026, 05:15 PM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.@ You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. The problem is, if it were a “normal” language from the 15th century and a cipher that corresponded to the ciphers of that time - based on what we know today - it would have been deciphered by now...
I just gave an example of a cipher in Latin from the 15th century (technically, ~ from 1499) that was known for 500 years, but only deciphered in 1998. I see absolutely no reason to believe that any 15th century cipher would be easy to crack.
(06-05-2026, 05:15 PM)JoJo_Jost wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Edit: Oh, and the AI doesn't have a database for many of the rural dialects of that time, and possibly even some forgotten languages.
I think AI might not need it that much. While modern LLM-based AI suffers in logical thinking and planning, it's good in interpolation/extrapolation, so identifying a dialect or a forgotten language by cognates may be relatively easy for an AI with its access to hundreds of languages. AI is tireless, it is quite possible to task AI with something like analyzing a list of 100000 word candidates matching each for possible languages, performing Google Books lookups, etc. This is costly and doesn't look like much fun to me, but I think there are a lot of opportunities for AI-assisted research into the Voynich MS.