No, AI agents did not discover a previously unknown Maya site

Summary

Google researcher Pietro Miotti claimed, with a team of AI agents, to have found a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. The site had already been discovered and published in an academic journal the previous year, and the claim drew criticism from archaeologists online.

Topics

• AI agents

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