Clifford Pickover challenges AI to decipher a message he encoded in Norse runes
pickover · x · 2026-10-27
Science writer Clifford Pickover shared an image of a quote he encoded in Norse runes using an online rune translator, asking whether any AI can decipher it. Deciphering stylized ancient scripts remains a tough multimodal benchmark, turning the replies into a live stress test of leading models' OCR and reasoning.
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