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AI not only heralds the future, but also helps us better understand our past. Here AI is used to instantly translate 5000 year old Akkadian tablets, a very labor intensive task for which few experts exist. Also relevant is the Vesuvius Challenge, trying to read scrolls carbonised by a volcano eruption

Interesting video on why North is up on maps. This is a good companion blog post: maps distort how we see the world