Three Students Just Deciphered the First Passages of a 2,000-Year-Old Scroll Burned in Vesuvius' Eruption
www.smithsonianmag.com
The trio used artificial intelligence to decode sections of the text, which appear to be a philosophical exploration of pleasure
The original post: /r/todayilearned by /u/tyrion2024 on 2024-05-29 02:31:48.

Original Title: TIL a team of 3 students won $700K for using AI to decipher the first passages of a 2,000-year-old scroll; 1 of 800 scrolls that were carbonized by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Since their discovery in the 1700s, trying to read them proved futile because unrolling them by hand caused damage