Computer automatically deciphers ancient language

However, this is still an extremely important development and it shows that sooner or later by leveraging the things computers are good at we will be able to solve such problems. I really don't think that it is something impossible to do. It just requires a new approach that none of us have thought about. After all not too long ago nuclear fission was said to be impossible, until a chain reaction was conceptualized.

Perhaps AI will go this way too, the difficult almost intractable problems will turn out to be easy under some new paradigm. Perhaps not. We'll never really know until we try.

So kudos Regina Barzilay and her team for pushing the limits.