AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time

  • Flying Squid
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    261 year ago

    And it says, “you know what would really suck? If a volcano erupted in the middle of me writing thi”

    • @SalamendaciousOP
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      61 year ago

      Or maybe “everything is going so well right now. Nothing could go wrong!”

      • Flying Squid
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        41 year ago

        “I’m on top of the world. Could life get any better than this?”

        • @SalamendaciousOP
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          1 year ago

          And then BOOM! In all seriousness I couldn’t even imagine what that must have been like. Absolutely terrifying.

          • Flying Squid
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            31 year ago

            And there hadn’t been an eruption in so many centuries that they didn’t even know Vesuvius was a volcano.