If you're one of those skeptics that doesn't see a bright future for Artificial Intelligence the following will change your mind.
Remember back in 79 CE, 1946 years ago when Mount Vesuvius blew its top and incinerated Pompeii, Herculaneum and large parts of the local Roman countryside? Ever since, interested parties have been digging through the ash looking for insight on the life of the Roman elites that lived in that unlucky neighborhood. Many scrolls have been found that are certain to contain interesting information of one sort or another but the charred rolls of papyrus couldn't be opened without destroying them. Now sophisticated X-rays and AI have been put to use and darned if some words haven't been made visible in some way. It's good to know that AI has become truly useful in important work.
Investigators feel that at least one of the scrolls contains work by the Greek philosopher Epicurus. Maybe Romans cherished the ideas of happy-go-lucky Epicurus enough to have scrolls of his stuff piled up in the living room instead of the Roman counterpart of Zippy the Pinhead or maybe not. But perhaps their sense of humor wasn't quite as developed as their descendants.
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