# Models will propose readings experts confirm

> Still possible: Generative and multimodal models can propose readings for unread graphs that palaeographers then confirm.

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# Models will propose readings experts confirm

Generative and multimodal models can propose readings for unread graphs that palaeographers then confirm.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** One piece of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- A held-out test on the readings accepted since 2018 places them in a model's top 20.
- The Anyang reviewers accept a reading whose candidate was first proposed by a model.

## What would rule it out

- Held-out tests on accepted readings score at or below the EVOBC baseline of 16.7 percent top-1.
- Five years of competitions produce no accepted model-proposed reading.

## Evidence 1 for · 1 against

[OBSD generates plausible modern glyphs for read oracle-bone graphs and was judged best paper at ACL 2024.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTHKXFKA9/obsd-generates-plausible-modern-glyphs-for-read-oracle-bone)

Suggestive

FOR

[OBI-Bench finds the best of 23 large multimodal models deciphering at about the level of untrained people, and EVOBC's…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/evidence/EVD0DEDTJ2A3HW3/obi-bench-finds-the-best-of-23-large-multimodal-models)

Supported

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[What are the roughly 3,000 unread oracle-bone graphs, and how many of them can ever be read?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/oracle-bone-undeciphered/questions/QST0DEDQEESA0GT/what-are-the-roughly-3-000-unread-oracle-bone-graphs-and-how)

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