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Elon Musk wants to get in on the action to decipher 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls

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Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge used AI to decipher 2,000-year old papyrus scrolls.
Contestants in the Vesuvius Challenge used AI to decipher the scrolls.

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A former SpaceX intern and 2 other students won $700,000 for deciphering a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll using AI. Here's what it said.

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Greek words on a scanned image of papyrus and the charred scroll below it with red lines from an X-ray
This ancient scroll is part of the only library left from the ancient world.

The University of Kentucky via The Vesuvius Challenge/EduceLab

Microsoft's Super Bowl ad is a sign of the company's shifting AI priorities

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Microsoft's new Copilot key
Microsoft is shifting its AI priorities towards Copilot over Bing.

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AI is setting humanity on the path to a new age of discovery

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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.

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OpenAI is adding digital watermarks to its AI-generated images — but it's not a perfect solution

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Sam Altman's OpenAI is adding watermarks to AI images but acknowledged they could be easily removed.

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Joy Buolamwini's 'Unmasking AI' unearths the bias in AI technologies and aims to hold Big Tech to account

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Unmasking AI by Joy Boulamwini
"Unmasking AI" by Joy Buolamwini.

Cover art by Malika Favre

I'm an AI startup founder and love hiring liberal arts grads. They give us a surprising edge.

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Students wear decorated graduation caps during The Fashion Institute of Technology's 2017 Commencement Ceremony at Arthur Ashe Stadium on May 25, 2017 in New York City.
AI CEO said creative thinkers with humanities backgrounds can help "connect the dots" for AI tech.

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AI's most popular chipmaker Nvidia is trying to use AI to design chips faster

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A laptop keyboard, a binary code reflected and Nvidia logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow
Nvidia is using AI to speed up the production of its GPUs.

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Nvidia's value surges about $500 billion in 6 weeks — that's almost as much as Tesla is worth

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Nvidia founder, president and CEO Jensen Huang displays his tattoo in September 2010.
Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang.

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Jeff Bezos is just $5 billion away from overtaking Elon Musk to become the world's wealthiest person once more

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Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.

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