Facts for Prelims (FFP)
Source: Hindustan Times, WION
| Cases | Key Points |
| AI to read the ancient scroll | Recently, AI was used to read an ancient scroll damaged by the Vesuvius eruption |
| Called the Vesuvius Challenge – a competition for reading Herculaneum Papyri | |
| Scrolls contain Roman and Greek texts, well-preserved. | |
| Researchers read the word ‘porphyras’ (Purple) in ancient Greek using AI. | |
| AI in space exploration | Northwestern University-led team developed BTSbot for automated supernova discovery without any human involvement. |
| BTSbot is a machine-learning algorithm trained on 1.4 million images
It detected supernova SN2023tyk. |
