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My AI Agents Found an Unmapped Maya Site (pietromiotti.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 day ago (1 child)

Interesting article, but only surprising part is that this hasnt been done before (mass analysing the Lidar Data). This seems like something that could have been done with much less compute and more specialized machen Learning algorithms already years ago. I mean most shapes that point to old buildings under the foilage are not exactly suddle in the Lidar Data.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Mass lidar scanning IS being done! They've found tons of previously unknown settlements and learned a lot more about the ones we did know about.

    There's just a LOT to scan and you're limited on distance. IIRC these lidar drones do multiple passes over an area so you'd have to be pretty close to deploy/recharge them.

    In pretty sure they were using deep learning as part of it, before everything was called AI.

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