Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 16, 2023

A.I. translation: “We shall build a civilization. We shall have many inventions, until the thinking machine becomes more clever. After that, we are useless, useless.”

I’ve been reading some AI stuff lately… I wouldn’t trust those translations :D That’s a job that I’d like to do. You can write anything! It’s a dead language. Who can tell the difference? :D

Why is there surprise that some early mammals may have preyed on some dinosaurs? They certainly were an abundant food source at the time.

Try it on the Voynich manuscript.

Isn’t “new fossil” an oxymoron?

i can spray water from my trunk too

Seems like anything that is computerized is called AI now.

How can they tell that the dinosaurs weren’t hunted for breakfast or lunch?

Impressive, but I’ll take Lucy The Elephant in Atlantic City

FINALLY! Something AI will be useful for……

Villagers digging in China’s rich fossil beds have uncovered the preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals couldn’t possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.

Scientists say the animal’s last meal probably is the first proof that mammals hunted small dinosaurs some 130 million years ago. It contradicts conventional evolutionary theory that early mammals were timid, chipmunk-sized creatures that scurried in the looming shadow of the giant reptiles.

In this case, the mammal was about the size of a large opossum, and the victim was a 5-inch “parrot dinosaur.”

A second mammal fossil found at the same site claims the distinction of being the largest early mammal ever found. It’s about the size of a modern dog, a breathtaking 20 times larger than most mammals living in the early Cretaceous Period.

Oh, WOW!! You really outdid yourselves on this informative history-archival panel!! Way to go ahead!

Here is and example of a translation:“On the 21st day the king goes down to the House of God.” Most of the recent translations were found to be related to royalty. Second most were administrative letter or records. Others were legal, astrological, astronomical predictions (The moon did this so there will be famine), and priestly letters. PNAS Nexus, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2023.

I am not surprised that small early mammals ate dinosaur eggs or small baby dinosaurs, just like some mammals today prey on bird eggs and baby animals. Finding the evidence is pretty cool.

A cuneiform chatbot? How do we verify its translation accuracy?

“Early mammals hunted dinosaurs for dinner”. Since it is now determined that birds evolved from dinos, that’s what us mammals are doing now with turkeys, ducks, pheasants, etc.

Well, don’t leave us in the dark, did the Akkadians have anything interesting to say.

Umm, If the AI can “translate them in seconds” wouldn’t that me they are no longer “undeciphered”?

Suggesting that early mammals “hunted” dinosaurs might be a bit of a stretch. They could also have been scavengers.