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The Vesuvius Challenge

Let's Science

English - October 28, 2023 16:00 - 20 minutes - 9.59 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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The Vesuvius Challenge is a scientific competition to unravel the text on burned papyri from the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle discuss the first milestone in which AI was used to read a word on a scroll which can never be unrolled and what comes next.


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