@imolelehmann: AI just found an undiscovered ancient maya site and the guy who found is not even an archeologist He was literally just on vacation in Peru when he thought to himself: How would the explorer who found Machu Picchu hunt for ruins if he had access to today'stools? So he asked Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok, and all four gave him the same answer: LiDAR, which are laser scans from planes that map the jungle floor underneath the trees. And it turns out NASA had already scanned huge stretches of jungle in Mexico and put it all online for free. So that night, he told his AI agents to go through it and went to bed. While he slept, 48 AI agents went through more than 1,200 square kilometers of scans, hunting for pyramids and plazas and ignoring natural hills. By the morning, they'd flagged a bunch of possible ancient villages. But he wanted to know if any of them were actually new. So the agents checked every research paper and archive they could find, and narrowed it down to one that nobody had ever recorded: A hilltop on the edge of a cliff, with a big flat plaza and a pyramid as tall as a three-story building. Completely buried under the jungle. Then he had his agents write a report for Mexico's national archaeology institute, translated into Spanish, and amazingly, the institute confirmed it was an undiscovered site. But the craziest part is that he found it without ever setting foot in Mexico, and most of the work happened while he was asleep. So think about what that means. There's still a massive amount of jungle data online that nobody has ever looked at closely. But now you could make the next big discovery if you simply ask AI the right questions

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Thursday 12 November 2026 13:56:44 GMT