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Prof. Greg Kondrak is a computer scientist who used Machine Learning to help decode the Voynich Manuscript and Dorabella Cipher.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:07 Overview of the difficulty of the Voynich Manuscript
00:04:53 There is no other document like Voynich
00:11:17 The controversy of the Voynich
00:12:38 All language is decipherment
00:27:51 "It is not simple at all"
00:30:49 The Dorabella cipher
00:33:05 Voynich may not be a human language
00:35:05 Universal concepts in language (fighting Chomsky)
00:43:37 ChatGPT knows nothing
00:44:41 AI doesn't have "truth"
00:47:09 Multiple language theory (Voynich)
00:48:34 Artificial intelligence lacks motivations
00:51:48 What rivals the Voynich?
00:53:05 "Puzzles made me a better scientist"
00:56:26 The Zodiac cipher
01:01:27 The problem of "language understanding" has been solved
01:06:48 Training AI in ethics
01:13:53 Chinese and English are superior (analytically)
01:19:35 Proving what the Voynich was and wasn't
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