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With their study, the researchers at the University of Alberta claim to have done something different.
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But no code has been identified even after decades of the world’s best cryptographers testing countless combinations. Many cryptologists suspect the text is a cipher, or a coded pattern of letters that must be unscrambled to make sense. Nothing is known about the person who authored it or the book’s purpose. It’s named for Wilfrid Voynich, the Polish book dealer who purchased it in 1912, but experts believe it was written 600 years ago. The book, which contains 246 pages of illustrations and apparent words written in an unknown script, is obscured by mystery. Everyone sees what they want to see.”Īnyone who’s familiar with the Voynich Manuscript should understand the skepticism. “Hebrew, and dozens of other languages have been identified before. “I have very little faith in it,” cryptographer Elonka Dunin tells Mental Floss. But experts are hesitant to give credence to the news. On the surface, this looks like a huge breakthrough: Since it was rediscovered a century ago, the Voynich Manuscript’s indecipherable text has stumped everyone from World War II codebreakers to computer programmers. Their study, published in Transactions of the Association of Computational Linguistics, basically states that an AI algorithm trained to recognize hundreds of languages determined the Voynich Manuscript to be encoded Hebrew.
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In 2015, Gibbs did an interview where he said that in five years, "I would like to think I could have a returnable series up and running." Considering the dubious accuracy of many History Channel "documentaries," he might just get his wish.Computing scientists at the University of Alberta recently made a bold claim: They say they’ve identified the source language of the baffling Voynich Manuscript, and they did so using artificial intelligence.
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Gibbs said in the TLS article that he did his research for an unnamed "television network." Given that Gibbs' main claim to fame before this article was a series of books about how to write and sell television screenplays, it seems that his goal in this research was probably to sell a television screenplay of his own. Essentially, Gibbs rolled together a bunch of already-existing scholarship and did a highly speculative translation, without even consulting the librarians at the institute where the book resides. Many scholars and amateur sleuths had already reached that conclusion, using the same evidence that Gibbs did. The idea that the book is a medical treatise on women's health, however, might turn out to be correct. Unfortunately, he has no evidence for such an index, other than the fact that the book does have a few missing pages. Davis noted that a big part of Gibbs' claim rests on the idea that the Voynich Manuscript once had an index that would provide a key to the abbreviations. It doesn’t result in Latin that makes sense." She added, "Frankly I’m a little surprised the TLS published it.If they had simply sent to it to the Beinecke Library, they would have rebutted it in a heartbeat." The Beinecke Library at Yale is where the Voynich Manuscript is currently kept. Medieval Academy of America director Lisa Fagin Davis told The Atlantic's Sarah Zhang, "They’re not grammatically correct. However, this isn't sitting well with people who actually read medieval Latin. He provided two lines of translation from the text to "prove" his point.
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In his article, Gibbs claimed that he'd figured out the Voynich Manuscript was a women's health manual whose odd script was actually just a bunch of Latin abbreviations. The weirdly-illustrated 15 th century book has been the subject of speculation and conspiracy theories since its discovery in 1912. Personally I object to his interpretation of abbreviations." As Harvard's Houghton Library curator of early modern books John Overholt put it on Twitter, "We're not buying this Voynich thing, right?" Medievalist Kate Wiles, an editor at History Today, replied, "I've yet to see a medievalist who does. Further Reading The mysterious Voynich manuscript has finally been decoded As soon as Gibbs' article hit the Internet, news about it spread rapidly through social media ( we covered it at Ars too), arousing the skepticism of cipher geeks and scholars alike.