Yad Vashem Uses Ai to Reveal Previously Unknown Names of Holocaust Victims


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"Without this technology it would probably take a long timeif at allto discover their names.

In this case the technology located names that even the family member did not remember or did not know about."

So says Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel of artificial intelligence that has helped it add 400 new names to its Hall of Names, which contains 4.9 million names of Holocaust victims and survivors.

The center has been using a large-language model, or LLM, for the past two years to locate, cross-reference, and confirm hundreds of thousands of names of those murdered in the Holocaust that have not yet been identified, reports Calcalist.

Without this technology, it would probably take a long timeif at allto discover their names.

Without this technology, it would probably take a long timeif at allto discover their names.

In this case, the technology located names that even the family member did not remember or did not know about.

Yad Vashem estimates that in each of the 20,000 pieces of testimony in its possession, it will be possible to extract about seven names of those who perished that were not known until now.

"The use of artificial intelligence helps the study of the Holocaust in many different ways," says the

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