Algorithms of progress: how AI closes gaps in science and history
In early October, it became known that artificial intelligence (AI) deciphered a letter sent on behalf of Napoleon Bonaparte to one of the French generals. Historians and philologists have been fighting over the key to the cipher for more than 200 years, the neural network found it in six hours. “Vedomosti” collected the most striking examples of how the AI found answers to the mysteries of centuries ago or in a matter of hours did work that scientists would have taken decades.
In early October, it became known that artificial intelligence (AI) deciphered a letter sent on behalf of Napoleon Bonaparte to one of the French generals. Historians and philologists have been fighting over the key to the cipher for more than 200 years, the neural network found it in six hours. “Vedomosti” collected the most striking examples of how the AI found answers to the mysteries of centuries ago or in a matter of hours did work that scientists would have taken decades.
