Artificial IntelligenceMarch 19, 2024
Inside the AI Competition That Decoded an Ancient Herculaneum Scroll
The Herculaneum scrolls, charred and preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, were unreadable—until now
How AI Is Solving Humanity’s Age-Old Mysteries
Less than two years after the arrival of ChatGPT, people are using machine learning to decode ancient scrolls, study theological riddles and investigate intelligence itself
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Artificial IntelligenceMarch 19, 2024
Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works
Designing machines to think like humans provides insight into intelligence itself
Artificial IntelligenceMarch 19, 2024
God Chatbots Offer Spiritual Insights on Demand. What Could Go Wrong?
Large language models trained on religious texts claim to offer spiritual insights on demand. What could go wrong?
Artificial IntelligenceJanuary 17, 2024
AI Does Math as Well as Math Olympians
Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad