AI just helped us find out where Plato is buried - here's how
The discovery is just the latest fragment of history to be uncovered with the aid of AI. Prizes are waiting for the next breakthrough.
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The discovery is just the latest fragment of history to be uncovered with the aid of AI. Prizes are waiting for the next breakthrough.
Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThis month, a trio of computer scientists won the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to use artificial intelligence to reveal four passages of ancient Greek encased for 2,000 years inside a charred scroll. The artifact was found at Herculaneum, a Roman resort town destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.. This “kind of thing that happens every half century or so,” Richard Janko, a professor of classics at the University of Michigan a
The scroll had been buried by Mount Vesuvius eruption in Italy in 79AD
The 2,000-year-old scroll was buried in volcanic mud and ash during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Three researchers won a $700,000 prize for using artificial intelligence to read a 2,000-year-old scroll that was scorched in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.