A team of three students won $700,000 this week for using artificial intelligence to read passages from a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll charred in Vesuvius’s eruption, according to The Guardian newspaper. The ancient document is one of the more than 800 scrolls known as the Herculaneum papyri carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE. Researchers discovered the texts in the 18th century, but attempts to read them proved futile - unrolling them by hand only caused them to fall apart. But now Artificial Intelligence has come to the rescue. What they reveal is amazing.
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