AI may threaten mathematicians, but archaeologists can't wait for it to decipher ancient texts
mariofilhoml · x · 2026-09-25
The author argues AI's impact across fields is uneven: while mathematicians lament AI's progress in math, historians and archaeologists eagerly await AI decoding ancient languages and reading artifacts like the Herculaneum scrolls. Deep domain expertise remains a human edge that AI amplifies rather than replaces.
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