Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge used AI to decipher 2,000-year old papyrus scrolls.
Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge used AI to decipher 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls.
  • ChatGPT has made the world familiar with AI that can make everyone more productive.
  • But a pair of developments this month show AI could set humans on course for a new age of discovery.
  • AI was used to decipher 2,000-year-old scrolls and help uncover a huge copper mine in Zambia.

In many ways, the ChatGPT era has opened people's eyes to the ways in which artificial intelligence can help them accomplish tasks at home, in class, or at work.

But if that's all you think the algorithms are limited to, think again.