Google AI researcher Pietro Miotti let his AI agents loose on some NASA lidar data — where, according to him, they made a staggering discovery: an ancient Maya site lurking deep under the thick canopy of the jungles of Mexico. “By analyzing NASA lidar data, my AI agents discovered a Maya site in Mexico that, as far as anyone can tell, no one had reported before,” Miotti wrote in a breathless blog post. “It took less than 72 hours to go from a random thought while traveling to an official…
