A 21-year-old won $40,000 for using AI to read the first word on a 2,000-year-old papyrus scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius

A 21-year-old undergrad won $40,000 as part of the Vesuvius Challenge by reading the first word in the Herculaneum scrolls using machine learning.

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