Austrian Academy to Release Apollo AI Trained on 600 Million Greek Words
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Updated · WIRED · Sep 22
Austrian Academy to Release Apollo AI Trained on 600 Million Greek Words
1 articles · Updated · WIRED · Sep 22
Summary
Wednesday’s launch will make Apollo — described as the first advanced large language model for Ancient Greek — freely available to academics through a chatbot.
Trained on about 600 million words from manuscripts, papyri and inscriptions, the model is designed to identify relevant fragments and suggest statistically likely restorations for damaged texts.
That could speed a painstaking process that now depends on a small pool of specialists who must parse unspaced writing, date documents and match dialect and historical context.
Researchers say Apollo will offer multiple candidate words rather than definitive answers, keeping scholars in the loop and limiting the risk of AI errors entering the historical record.
The tool is expected to sharpen details of everyday life in antiquity more than rewrite ancient history, and its developers say the approach could later extend to Latin, Egyptian and other fields.