After Rome conquered Greece (~175 BC) they took a bunch of educated Greeks as slaves to do administration duties/scribes.

Then after the empire split, The Eastern Roman Empire mostly used Greek while the Western mostly used Latin.

This is a good point, I think the hope is that both artifacts and the interpretation of those artifacts will be enough to be compelling to the Gen pop but those definitely have their limitations.

It's explained on the article op posted, which contains a video explaining everything.

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Did you recreate the part where Chuck abandoned your country? Or the part where he cooperates with the Nazis?

Why do we need to be satisfied with technological innovation?

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Very true. Also wasn't Greek pretty much the universal language of the time for writing? Like didn't even the Romans write in Greek a lot too?

Du beau boulot ! You don't mention it in the video, but which one of the three original sources was closest to the transcript from the Swiss archives?

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We need ways to sign and tag video and other media as authentic and ways for people and systems to vouch for it in a distributed fashion, and the tools to authenticate it built into media players. It needs to be part of the file formats, built into recorders and publishing processes. Then we can just treat everything that doesn't have proof as fake.

Why use an AI to make a "guess" about what was actually said in the recording, thereby replacing a lack of knowledge with incorrect knowledge, which I'm sure is worse

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Maybe I’m fear-mongering but yes this is exactly what I have anxiety about

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I definitely think of this more as an existential question, and a question of when - if ever - we will be satisfied

> To be honest, I was a bit surprised by the enthusiasm of the researchers in ethics I contacted

It's a hot topic right now and there's a fear that ordinary people will gain dangerous superpowers from machine learning models. So many people want to lock down access to and tighten controls, to regulate and have them edited and knobbled in ways that suit their agenda to the detriment of others.

Ethics researchers will have extraordinary powers if this comes to pass, and they are quite rightly very excited about this shift in power away from technologists.

If we normalize this then we will also normalize AI retouches of other historical media, and it can be done wholesale in a way that Stalin could have only dreamed of

Why weren't we satisfied with 16-bit computers, colorless TV or even radio?

How cool would it not be to be able to experience the room he sat in while giving the speech, as a fly on the wall, fully immersed in the moment? I personally think that would be a sweet experience, not only here but in so many other epic moments of history as well.

To me it's the natural evolution of our storytelling capabilities, as long as we stay rooted in the present and reality it self it could be a great tool.

Why weren't we satisfied with 16-bit computers, colorless TV or even radio?

How cool would it not be to be able to experience the room he sat in while giving the speech, as a fly on the wall, fully immersed in the moment? I personally think that would be a sweet experience, not only here but in so many other epic moments of history as well.

To me it's the natural evolution of our storytelling capabilities, as long as we stay rooted in the present and reality it self it could be a great tool.

This is absolutely fascinating. Congratulations on such a major accomplishment!

What will you be working on next?!

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Japanese "hate" towards the Chinese is very very recent, and only mainly a thing during imperial Japan in the late 1800s to 1950s or so when Japan was more modernized and developed than China, which was more poorer and less modernized.

I'm pretty sure the average Japanese civilian never hated or cared about the Chinese. It was only the occupying forces (the soldiers) who were taught and trained to hate the Chinese. It's all part of "hardening" the soldier, to make them ruthless against the enemy, who was the Chinese at that time, to see them as less human, so they can succeed in their goal of conquering China.

Idk what writing system has to do with hate? It's just symbols meant to represent things. We use Arabic numerals, and yet that doesn't stop many Americans from hating the Arab world?

Nowadays, there's no hate between the East Asian countries, except some individuals, and China nowadays is more powerful and developed than Japan.

Could you summarize your education and professional experience which prepared you for this fascinating project?