An artificial intelligence deciphers the Voynich Codex, the most mysterious book in the world.
The Voynich codex is the most enigmatic book in the world. It is a volume apparently impossible to understand that combines text, images and illustrations.
Since it was written more than 600 years ago, sages, kings, and even CIA spies have tried to discover its contents without success. However, everything is beginning to change thanks to artificial intelligence.
A group of computer scientists from the University of Alberta are submitting this ancient manuscript to an artificial intelligence created to understand human ambiguities in language. First, the researchers showed the machine extracts in 400 different languages of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a starting point for the machine to begin to identify the languages.
After this first phase, the researchers opted for the Voynich codex to put test the capabilities of your artificial intelligence. Although at first theorized about the possibility that it was written in Arabic, after the artificial intelligence scrutinized the text with its algorithm they concluded that it was a volume written in Hebrew. "It was a surprising finding," says Professor Greg Kondrak, who leads the research. "Discovering the language in which it is written is only the first step, now we will try to decipher its content," he adds.
Researchers are working on the assumption that the codex is written from alphagrams - a word game consisting of defining a phrase with another phrase created from rhyming words that are written similarly except for the letters of the beginning - in that language. However, so far, researchers have been unable to find experts in ancient Hebrew and had to opt for their own software. "80% of the words in the codex appear in a Hebrew dictionary, but we do not know if they have meaning as a whole," says Konrak. To solve this question, they opted for what any smart Internet user would do: use Google Translator.
"It contains phrases with grammatical coherence that you can interpret," says Konrak. For example, according to his findings, the manuscript begins with a strange phrase: "He made recommendations for the priest, the man of the house and me and the people [SIC]." "A strange phrase for the beginning of a work but that makes sense," he says. Until the participation of historians specialized in ancient Hebrew in the project, it will be impossible to interpret and know in depth the contents of the Voynich codex. However, the most difficult part of this mystery of more than 500 years has already been resolved.
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