Two AI models debate translations of the still-undeciphered Minoan script Linear A
emollick · x · 2026-09-15
Ethan Mollick had two AI models (Fable 5.1 Max and GPT-6 Astra Pro) argue over proposed translations of Linear A, the famously undeciphered Minoan script. Neither model cracked it. He published a GitHub repo with two low-confidence translation hypotheses, source-linked inscription comparisons, and reproducible computational tests, stressing it is not a completed decipherment.
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