HieraticBench
Can AI read ancient Egyptian handwriting?
About HieraticBench
An Oxford Egyptologist wrote one sentence in hieratic, the handwriting of ancient Egypt. No AI model can read it. HieraticBench measures how close they are.
In the maker’s words
I'm obsessed with Egyptology. During covid, I wanted to get a hieratic tattoo. For those who don't know, hieratic is the cursive form of hieroglyphs that was used in day-to-day life in ancient Egypt. It's as old as hieroglyphs. I then went on a mission to have a sentence translated into hieratic. Luckily, in 2022, I was able to commission an Oxford Egyptologist to write it for me. After that, I took it to a hieratic specialist I found on Instagram to redraw it with "biblical" accuracy. When generative AI came out, I realized that models very rarely identify hieratic and almost never translate it correctly. Every single time a new model came out, I ended up testing my sentence and hieratic texts in general, and I realized this could actually become a benchmark. Since so many benchmarks are becoming saturated, we need to find weird ways to test new models. That's why I decided to build Hie…
Where people found it
- Hacker NewsShow HN: HieraticBench – Can AI read ancient Egyptian handwriting?4 points2 comments2 days ago
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