The Vesuvius Challenge announced its grand prize winners, who turned to AI to recover the contents of a damaged ancient scroll that survived the volcanic blast.
Ancient Roman scrolls that got "flash-fried" and buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, dubbed the Herculaneum Papyri, have recently been decoded by three students using AI.
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