When I get gloomy about current tech stuff I like to read the latest on the "Vesuvius Challenge" - making progress on reading a library's worth of scrolls that literally burned to ashes in the Pompei eruption... who knows what treasures we might get to read in our lifetimes that were lost for 2000 years. Sure, there's some "AI" involved, but it's not just rub-more-AI-on-it dross.
Wow, thanks for sharing this! I had no idea these scrolls even existed, and what a massive challenge it is. Technically and historically. Definitely one of the most interesting application of AI I've seen in a while. I was definitely on the negative side of my "conflicted" feelings about AI when making this post and this has actually made me feel better :)
https://scrollprize.org/
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/april-progress-prizes-upd...