When I get gloomy about current tech stuff I like to read the latest on the "Vesuvius Challenge" - making progress on reading a library's worth of scrolls that literally burned to ashes in the Pompei eruption... who knows what treasures we might get to read in our lifetimes that were lost for 2000 years. Sure, there's some "AI" involved, but it's not just rub-more-AI-on-it dross.
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/april-progress-prizes-upd...