Did OpenAI's O1 Decipher the Indus Valley Script?

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A curious experiment: O1's attempt at decoding the Indus Valley script. It constructed a systematic analysis comparing patterns to known ancient writing systems and proposed translations. Looking for feedback from archaeologists and computational linguistics experts on the methodology.

> I'm not a professional archaeologist or linguist. I just like to play with LLMs

This seems like the most common use of AI.. people going way out of their field of expertise, and not having the knowledge to know if they are looking at a hallucination or not.

If you had the most knowledgeable entity ever at your disposal, would you only use it to ask questions within your 'field of expertise'?

AI used this way isn't replacing expertise - it's helping people explore ideas, generate hypotheses, and find plausible answers to questions that lack definitive solutions.

Many research problems, especially in niche areas, suffer from limited attention due to scarce expert resources. Curious amateurs can now do initial exploratory work using tools like o1. Maybe it'll surface interesting directions for experts to examine.

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