Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old [Voynich] Manuscript

February 7, 2018February 7, 2018 ~ cafebedouin

"The first step was to figure out the language of the ciphered text...the AI analyzed the Voynich gibberish, concluding with a high rate of certainty that the text was written in encoded Hebrew... For the second step, the researchers entertained a hypothesis proposed by previous researchers—that the script was created with alphagrams...Armed with the knowledge … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Freaky 600-Year-Old [Voynich] Manuscript

The Solution to the Voynich Manuscript | Nicholas Gibbs

September 15, 2017January 20, 2018 ~ cafebedouin ~ 5 Comments

The solution to the Voynich Manuscript is a really interesting example of the power of scholarship and subject specialization. Edit: A week after it was published, this "solution" was debunked. I missed the follow-up. Perhaps the lesson here is how difficult it can be to untangle these kinds of puzzles.