4 ways artificial intelligence revealed the unexpected in 2024 | CNN

A trio of researchers decoded more than 2,000 characters from ancient Roman papyri in 2023 using AI and high-resolution X-rays.

The Vesuvius Challenge , a competition designed to accelerate the deciphering process, hopes 90% of four scrolls will be unlocked by the end of 2024 .

The project is one example of the growing utility of artificial intelligence, which came of age in 2024 .

Machine-learning program detected 18 types of rhythm, tempo, tempo and two types of ornamentation.

The approach could all be mixed and matched to form an “enormous repertoire” of phrases.

A next step, according to the study, is interactive experimentation with whales, along with observations of whale behavior.

Attempts to apply AlphaFold to proteins based on mutated sequences, including one linked to early breast cancer, have confirmed that the software is not equipped to predict the consequences of new mutations in proteins. AlphaFold is only the most high-profile of a number of AI tools being deployed in biomedical fields. Machine learning is accelerating efforts to compile an atlas of every single type of cell in the human body and discovering molecules that become new drugs, including a type of antibiotic that may work against a particularly menacing drug-resistant bacteria. Mindy Weisberger and Taylor Nicioli contributed to this report.