12 comments

  • chirau 6 minutes ago
    Interesting. I don't want to sound like a hater or anything, but I will personally wait for an expert archaeologist's verification on this. I have dealt with agents making up stuff that sounds fantastic and ground-breaking but completely falters on further review. And I doubt the folks you contacted have the audacity to question a Google engineer and his 48 agents. Even if he is not archaelogist. Do you think it would have gone the same way if it was another random person who had done the exact same thing and reached out to them? The one day feedback part also has me questioning what they actually did.

    Anyway, I can hear myself beginning to sound like a hater now, so I will stop here. I hope it turns out to be right, and in that case, congrats on your wonderful discovery.

  • civvv 2 minutes ago
    Amazing, the perfect application of AI Agents. Find patterns/answers in massive amounts of data. It is becoming more clear everyday that this is the primary driver behind an AI's "intelligence". Finding the solution to mathematical problems that have decades of documented attempts by mathematicians, creating software based on exisitng code and now, discovering Maya pyramids within enourmous amounts of lidar-data.

    The final barrier for super intelligence, or perhaps even just "human intelligence": can it materialize "new fields/ideas" without large datasets of human made and curated existing attempts?

  • raynhardt 9 minutes ago
    well done! Actual good use of AI.
  • elmer2 7 minutes ago
    This and spotting cancers are some of the best uses of AI.
  • varispeed 6 minutes ago
    Why only 48?
  • Iolaum 52 minutes ago
    Amazing!
  • glimshe 3 minutes ago
    Why is "Google SWE" relevant here? Shouldn't the evidence speak for itself? Will the AI work better because it was "pointed" by a Google SWE?

    Also, I think we're long past the days when "Google SWE" carried special weight vs the rest of the industry.

  • Aozora7 9 minutes ago
    You've heard about vibe coding, but have you heard of vibe archeology?
  • thomasben 7 minutes ago
    @openai @anthropic @google @spacexai: can you please proceed with scanning the entire planet and let us know what you found?

    Regards, — The world

  • throwaway384034 0 minutes ago
    >You can just do things. I'm not an archaeologist, so I didn't know this was supposed to be hard. I just picked an old problem, tried the most obvious thing and threw some compute at it. Being a naive outsider might be a superpower now.

    How to sound like the most insufferable clown.

  • thibran 4 minutes ago
    What a failure of archeology, they should have done that before.
  • iLoveOncall 9 minutes ago
    It's often easy to find what nobody has been looking for.
    • hannofcart 5 minutes ago
      You could say that about recent slew of CVEs as well.

      And such findings are usually praiseworthy and valuable.

    • guerrilla 8 minutes ago
      That's hardly relevant here.