![]() ![]() Our Take : Using AI for preserving and interpreting historical texts is a useful application. These outputs are then used by researchers to better analyze the texts. The AI-powered software then sequences and groups the hieroglyphs into categories such as birds, reptiles, or human body parts, and helps identify each hieroglyphic sign using Gardiner’s Sign List. Under the Hieroglyphics Initiative attempts, Google Arts and Culture released an open-source program, where researchers can upload a photo of text taken from inscriptions on tomb walls and create a facsimile layer of the image, and zoom in on a specific section. More recently, large-format photography revolutionized the field. Initially, translators used paper and pencil to sketch or trace inscriptions on tomb walls. Ubisoft has developed the Hieroglyphics Initiative, which aims to help researchers decode Egyptian hieroglyphs using machine learning. Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts? Only time will tell what those uses look like. But at the same time, Ukraine's choice could open a "Pandora's Box" of using similar AI systems in warfare. The true danger of tools like Clearview's is in putting too much trust in them and using their predictions to make high-stakes decisions. Furthermore, as Lockett observes, Ukraine seems to be using Clearview with caution. Indeed, some very good outcomes could result from using technology for the purposes Lockett noted, even if Clearview's system is not perfect. ![]() That being said, I think it's certainly interesting that Clearview offered its services to Ukraine, and potential use cases like these make it difficult for me to assume that Clearview and its product are inherently irredeemable. Our Take : As with any use of Clearview, Ukraine's is bound to be controversial. While even Clearview CEO Hoan Ton-That doesn't know exactly what Ukraine is using his company's tech for, journalist Will Lockett has a few theories: these include undermining Russian propaganda and identifying Russian soldiers who commit war crimes. Ukraine initially refused Clearview's service, but later accepted it as Russian war crimes and propaganda ramped up. Clearview augmented its existing dataset of 10 billion images with another 2 billion from Russian social network VKontakte, giving its tool the ability to identify Russian soldiers and find their addresses and families. Clearview AI's latest journey takes it to Ukraine, where the besieged country has decided to use the facial recognition tool in its defense. ![]()
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