Tech Culture · Aug 8
AI Translating 5,000 Year Old Cuneiform Shows How Scarce Expertise Scales
The real story is not ancient tablets speaking English. It is machine learning turning rare scholarly labor into shared infrastructure.
- Treat AI as an assistant that expands expert capacity, not as a substitute for expert judgment.
- Look for domains where scarce labor, messy records, and slow first pass analysis limit access.
- Build tools that preserve uncertainty and context, especially when translating specialized knowledge.