Brent Seales - How AI Is Reading the Only Library That Survived Antiquity (Ep. 328)
Dr. Brent Seales, computer scientist at the University of Kentucky and co-founder of the Vesuvius Challenge, joins guest host Nick Tawil on Infinite Loops to explain how synchrotron X-rays and machine learning are making unopenable ancient scrolls readable, and why the work has now shifted from engineering to reading. This summer in Naples, his team presented results from three sealed Herculaneum scrolls, including the first read end to end.
Show Notes
Brent Seales & Nick Tawil
Dr. Brent Seales: Stanley and Karen Pigman Chair of Heritage Science at the University of Kentucky and co-founder of…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.