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A BBC article makes me wonder whether AI will one day crack the cryptogram of La Buse. The BBC article is mainly about the Borg cipher, a 408-page-long manuscript sitting in the Vatican, which has remained unread for more than 400 years (see image). It is mostly incomprehensible – coded using 34 obscure symbols with a few Roman letters and a front page written in Arabic. But with the help of machine learning – a form of artificial intelligence – researchers were able to unravel the code. They discovered the text was filled with thousands of bizarre treatments such as drinking several glasses of high-quality red wine or fermenting a nutmeg in some dough to combat dysentery.
I was fascinated to read that the Borg cipher contains "thousands of bizarre treatments" because my conclusion regarding the La Buse cryptogram is that it also consists of a list of bizarre treatments. Therefore the interpretation of the Borg cipher lends credence to my interpretation of the La Buse cryptogram, in my opinion. I believe that La Buse wrote the cryptogram as a kind of joke to lead on a wild goose chase the crowd who had turned up to see him being hanged. I certainly don't believe that La Buse would have wanted to reward the blood-thirsty crowd, hungry to see him suffer, by giving them directions to his treasure!
I wouldn't be at all surprised if AI gives a plausible interpretation of the La Buse cryptogram sooner rather than later, and I wouldn't be surprised if the AI interpretation is similar to mine.
AI is progressing fast of course. For example, it was only in 2025 that it became possible to use AI to generate watchable movies, and I was one of the first to experiment with that. Check out my eight minute Pythonesque movie The Quest featuring members of my family and ... a cryptogram.
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