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One of my favorite things to do in museums is to use Google Translate on artifacts. I find it so exciting to point my phone at a 500 year old vase and read what it says. Here are a couple examples from a trip I tool to the British Museum, it handled the Arabic and Chinese pretty well but the Rosetta Stone's Greek stumped it.

[1] Arabic: https://photos.app.goo.gl/jQw3QCdC5PrWQGkr9 [2] Chinese: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dXhsH7Xq6zpFS6Eq8 [3] Greek: https://photos.app.goo.gl/DBGWCDd8EhzuB2y67




This is fantastic, thank you. And this is only going to get better over the next couple of years. Totally incredible.




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