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In the 21st century,
a powerful
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technology is transforming
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our understanding
of the ancient world.
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Artificial intelligence is
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one of the most fascinating
technologies
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in human history.
We're getting knowledge
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that we didn't have.
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Artificial intelligence is finding
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entire civilizations
that were completely unknown.
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They identified
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60,000 ancient Mayan ruins
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that had been lost
for centuries.
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And it is extracting
incredible new information
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from the world's
earliest writings.
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It's very
possible that
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AI will help unlock
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new understandings
about the gods.
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As AI reveals
new details about our past,
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will it uncover proof
that Earth was visited
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by extraterrestrials?
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Through AI,
we're able
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to analyze clues
and ultimately find out
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who we are
and where we came from.
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At Dartmouth College,
some of the brightest minds
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in the emerging field
of computer science
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hold the first ever workshop
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on a new concept called
artificial intelligence.
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Their goal is to figure out
how to create machines
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that can think and learn
like humans.
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The computer scientists
at Dartmouth were way ahead
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of their time,
especially when it comes to
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computers replicating
human-like thinking.
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And if you fast forward
just 40 years later,
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you see the IBM Deep Blue system
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defeating Garry Kasparov,
a world chess champion.
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After that, you have
AI mimicking human behavior,
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driving cars, and pretty much in
every aspect of our daily lives.
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Artificial intelligence is the ability
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to use electronics
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to begin to simulate the
workings of the brain itself.
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Some people look at movies
like The Terminator and say,
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"Oh, my god, we're
talking about doomsday.
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Other people say we're
talking about a golden age
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where machines increase
our power and our ability
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to create prosperity and peace.
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AI certainly can be
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an incredible tool.
However,
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at the same time, we need
to be very, very careful,
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because I cannot tell you
how many examples
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there are out there right now
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where it's been proven
AI has made mistakes.
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While there is much
debate over the benefits
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and dangers
of artificial intelligence,
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the technology continues
to evolve at a rapid pace,
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and is quickly becoming
a powerful tool
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for historians
and archaeologists.
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The potential of AI
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to help us in archaeology and
in anthropology is limitless.
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One way how AI can be used,
for example, is
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a lot of the ancient sites today
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are quite literally in ruins,
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but AI can help us with
reassembling them on a screen.
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AI can take
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a lot of seemingly random
data points,
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but it can join the dots
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in a way that
human researchers can't.
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It can look at images
of archaeological sites
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and essentially say,
"Well, what are we missing?"
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And it may find something
which is part
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of the original construction.
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AI can model unimaginable
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number of scenarios
in an instant.
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AI is having a dramatic impact
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in the rediscovery
of lost civilizations.
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An AI can be used to
accelerate our reconstruction
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of ancient technologies.
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This is tremendously exciting.
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As artificial
intelligence
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uncovers long-hidden secrets
in the archaeological record,
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ancient astronaut theorists
are confident
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it will also provide
new evidence
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of extraterrestrial intervention
on Earth.
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And they believe
one of the best ways
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in which this technology
is being applied
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is in the translation
of ancient cuneiform texts.
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The oldest were written
more than 5,000 years ago
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by the Sumerians, who are
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the world's first
known civilization.
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One of the great
things that the Sumerians did
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was precisely writing
with a stylus in clay,
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and then firing the clay
so it becomes a brick.
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And over the centuries
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that brick becomes,
essentially, stone.
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And so, archeologists found
literally thousands of these.
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Attempts to decipher
Sumerian cuneiform
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began in 1849,
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and it took nearly 90 years
to fully crack it.
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When they did,
researchers discovered
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detailed business ledgers,
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official government
correspondence
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and medical texts.
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But it is the stories
found in the cuneiform tablets
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of powerful beings
called the Anunnaki
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that is of particular interest
to ancient astronaut theorists.
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The Anunnaki
are the founder gods
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of the Sumerian civilization.
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And they were masters
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of the arts and sciences
bringing civilizing qualities
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to this part of the world.
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According to
the Sumerian texts, the Anunnaki
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would come
in rockets to Earth.
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And they helped
create Sumerian culture.
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These texts are describing
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what would only seem
to be extraterrestrials.
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To date,
only ten percent
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of the over half a million
cuneiform tablets found
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have been translated,
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leading ancient astronaut
theorists to speculate
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that more information
about the Anunnaki
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is yet to be discovered.
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There are only about
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100 people who can
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translate cuneiform
anywhere in the world.
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So, who knows
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what these untranslated tablets
might contain?
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Now, thanks
to artificial intelligence,
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translation of these texts
is being greatly accelerated.
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At Ariel University,
Professor of Assyriology
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and Digital Humanities
Dr. Shai Gordin
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has created a new
AI-powered translation software
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to study Sumerian cuneiform.
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With the advent
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of the recording of cuneiform
artifacts digitally,
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that brought about a revolution
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in our accessibility
to these artifacts.
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An AI can be trained
to identify
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the shapes of certain signs
or certain letters.
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And with
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the accumulation of these
digitization of tablets,
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it became
relatively easy to do.
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The AI program
has not only learned
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how to read
and translate cuneiform,
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it can also reassemble texts
from broken tablets.
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Now that
everything is digitized,
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artificial intelligence
completed lines
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of ancient literature
that hasn't been read
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for thousands of years.
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Which is, uh, incredible.
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Using AI to read
and translate cuneiform texts
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is still in its infancy,
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but already, it has discovered
20 new lines
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in The Epic of Gilgamesh,
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which is the oldest story
ever written.
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Researchers at the University of Chicago
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are also using
artificial intelligence
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to interpret the college's
collection of cuneiform tablets.
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The AI program known as
DeepScribe is being trained
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to decode
yet-to-be translated texts
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embedded in thousands
of ancient government records.
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The technology will also
have the capability
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of finding missing details
in tablets
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that have already
been deciphered.
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AI is able
to look at intricate markings
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on the tablets and determine
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lost words or lost phrases
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that are embedded within
these tablets that were
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previously invisible to humans.
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The idea
that we now have
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an AI model--
in fact, several--
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that can now
translate cuneiform
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is gonna make full translations
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of these texts
an awful lot easier.
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And who knows what
these tablets might contain?
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They could
contain creation myths,
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cosmological ideas,
perhaps even a memory
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of the ancient sites like
Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe.
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It's very possible
that AI will help unlock
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a whole new lexicon
of knowledge,
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possibly new data sets,
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new understandings
about the gods
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that are just
waiting to be discovered.
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There are literally thousands
of tablets
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that we still
have not translated,
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and there's probably
a wealth of information
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that we can tap into
utilizing this type of medium.
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As artificial
intelligence
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becomes an essential tool for
investigating the ancient world,
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could it reveal new details
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that fundamentally change
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our understanding
of human history?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and suggest further evidence
can be found
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by examining how AI is helping
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to uncover civilizations
that had been lost
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for centuries.
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Dotting the jungles
of Central America
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stand the ruins of the Maya,
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considered by many to be one
of the greatest civilizations
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in the history of the Americas.
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These skilled craftsmen
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created sophisticated cities
and temples,
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including Tikal,
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Palenque,
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Chichen Itza,
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Uxmal,
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and Copán.
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The Maya really stand out among
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ancient civilizations,
in terms of their
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achievements.
They created
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the only writing system
we know in all of the Americas.
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And they became masters
of mathematics and astronomy.
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Archeologists have determined
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that the most well-known
Mayan ruins
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were created between
250 and 900 AD.
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Scholars have
long considered this era,
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known as the Classic Period,
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to be the height
of Maya civilization.
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For decades,
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there was a understanding
or thinking
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that the Classic Period
was really
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where they started
building cities.
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And that, before that, they had
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more humble,
village style living.
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But very recently, we have
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AI finding earlier
than we knew structures,
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and it's given us
a better understanding
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of the Maya world.
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For over two decades,
archaeologists have been
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performing surveys
of the vast Mirador Basin,
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examining more than
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of dense jungle
using lidar technology.
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Lidar
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is the use of lasers
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in order to penetrate
through the jungle
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to see what is lurking
beneath all of that.
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And that has opened up
a whole new gateway.
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Instead of
going into the jungle,
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you can now do it with airplanes
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and use laser technology
to peer beneath the jungle
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to see what happened
hundreds of years ago.
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The lidar scans have
produced thousands of images
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and more data
than archeologists
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could ever hope to sift
through on their own.
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So, to process the material,
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many have turned to
artificial intelligence.
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AI models can take
large data sets of lidar,
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and through pattern
recognition and seeking
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straight lines and circles,
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it's revealed
undetected structures
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that were previously
invisible to humans.
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With the use
of artificial intelligence
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analyzing lidar images,
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archaeologists have identified
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60,000 ancient Mayan ruins
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hidden beneath
a jungle canopy
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that had been lost
for centuries.
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I've been
a mapper in the Maya area
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for decades now, and lidar,
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combined with
the processing speed of AI,
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has changed things.
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I've mapped
about 4,000 buildings,
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but what I've done
for a whole lifetime
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was quadrupled by AI
and lidar in a single year,
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and that was just in one area.
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Not only
were archeologists amazed
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by the number of settlements
the AI program identified,
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they were astonished
by their apparent age.
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It's thought that the newly
discovered Mayan structures
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were created
in the tenth century BC--
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predating other
Mayan structures
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by more than 1,000 years.
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A huge population
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must have once existed there,
and this was never known
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before this technology was used
to uncover this information.
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Archeologists realized that this area
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was at one time
densely populated,
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and they built
huge pyramid cities.
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There were
hundreds of thousands,
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if not even millions
of people living there.
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For ancient
astronaut theorists,
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these 3,000-year-old ruins
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are particularly intriguing
because the Maya
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wrote about an earlier age
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that predated
the Classic Maya structures
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archaeologists were familiar with.
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The Maya themselves
say that
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the founders
of the Mayan civilization
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were, in fact, star beings
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that had come down
in the distant past
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that had given the Maya
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the knowledge and wisdom
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to create the foundations
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of their civilization.
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Could it be that
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what artificial intelligence
has uncovered
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in Guatemala's Mirador Basin
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are ruins from
a time when the Maya
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were visited
by otherworldly beings?
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Curiously, many of these ruins
are even more sophisticated
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than later Mayan structures,
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including roads
that were on par
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with those built by the Romans.
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The lidar surveys
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have revealed
literally hundreds
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of what are being referred to
by the archeologists
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as superhighways
linking together
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the different Mayan cities.
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And these are raised causeways
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that come up
several feet beyond
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the actual level
of the jungle themself.
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Similar elevated
causeways
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were built by the Maya
throughout the Classical era,
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some of which were as
wide as a four-lane highway.
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Archeologists believe
that while these roads
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were used for transportation,
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they served
a more profound purpose.
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You don't need an
elevated highway or causeway
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to simply walk from A to B.
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Why would the Maya
build these highways,
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especially in the absence
of any beasts of burden
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or evidence of the use
of wheels for carts
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or anything of that nature?
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And the answer
to that question is that
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the thing at the end
of the causeway
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would often house the rulers
or very high nobles
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and/or buildings
that warranted procession.
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These are ritual causeways
that would be used
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in a pilgrimage sense.
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For ancient
astronaut theorists,
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it's highly intriguing
that the Maya
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built vast roadways
for ritual purposes
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because their mythology
prominently features a road
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that leads to the stars.
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There are stories of
the Maya that say that
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the road of the stars
descended from the sky
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and 13 gods descended
from the heavens to earth
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and walked with our ancestors.
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If the Mayan roads
have an otherworldly connection,
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as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
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is it possible
that further evidence
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is hidden in the jungle,
just waiting to be discovered?
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For ancient astronaut theory,
AI is an incredible
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tool, because we've been
saying all along,
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there's got to be
more evidence out there.
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And it seems that AI
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is confirming much of what
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ancient astronaut theory
is suggesting.
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Might the use
of AI in Guatemala
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reveal that ancient stories
of humans
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living alongside gods
are not fantasy
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but instead
are accounts of real history?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and they suggest further clues
can be found in Turkey
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at one of the oldest
archeological sites
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ever discovered.
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Spread across
the arid Nazca Plateau
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are the famous geoglyphs
known as the Nazca Lines.
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They are a collection of
more than 400 giant patterns
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carved into the earth.
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Some of them
are simple lines,
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as the name implies. Some
of them are much more complex.
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They're animal forms,
human forms.
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They were originally
discovered
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by a few archaeologists
in the 1920s.
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But it was really in the 1930s,
when commercial flights started,
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that people noticed
just how many lines there were.
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They're of great interest to
ancient astronaut theory
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because they can
only be seen from the sky.
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The Nazca lines are thought
of as beacons to the gods.
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It's a signaling systems
that humans are using
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to communicate with the gods.
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While archeologists
believe these geoglyphs
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were created between
200 to 700 AD,
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the dating is uncertain,
and no written records
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exist to explain when or why
the Nazca Lines were made.
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But in 2024,
new clues emerged
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when a team
of Japanese archeologists
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announced the
discovery of more than 300
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previously unknown Nazca lines.
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A Japanese researcher
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named Masato Sakai used
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lidar imagery
in combination with AI
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to really accelerate
the process of discovery.
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In just a year's time,
he found 303 figures,
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which almost doubled
what we had found
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in the first century
before that.
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With the help
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of AI, these new lines
and figurines
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were discovered that,
before, essentially,
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were invisible
to the naked eye.
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Some of the glyphs
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are quite intricate
and very surprising, including
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a 72-foot-long orca
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that is portrayed in profile
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holding some kind of a weapon
in its hand.
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The Japanese
research team
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believes the newly
discovered geoglyphs
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were created around 200 BC,
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which would push back the dating
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for when the first Nazca Lines
were made
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by at least 400 years.
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Who knows what more
is waiting to be discovered
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as AI is increasingly
brought to bear.
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Maybe there's knowledge encoded
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in some of these new
patterns and lines
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that was not apparent from
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our looking at what
we previously knew.
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While researchers
have just begun examining
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the newly-discovered geoglyphs
in hopes of finding clues
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as to the purpose
of the Nazca Lines,
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at another iconic site,
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AI may have already
discovered a coded message.
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Here stands
one of the most important
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archaeological sites
in the world: Göbekli Tepe.
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When excavations began in 1995,
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archaeologists were amazed
to unearth
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dozens of giant stone monoliths,
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some weighing as much as 20 tons
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and many displaying
intricate stone carvings.
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Intrigued by the sophistication
of the carvings,
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archeologists had sediment
layers of the site
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radiocarbon dated, and
the results were astonishing.
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They indicated that
Göbekli Tepe was created
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around 9,500 BC,
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predating the earliest
known civilizations
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by more than 5,000 years.
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As the different enclosures
gradually were revealed,
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some extraordinary pillars
were uncovered.
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And the most enigmatic of these
was Pillar 43,
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otherwise known
as the Vulture Stone.
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Because one
of its central features
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is this open-winged vulture.
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Beneath that is a scorpion.
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And it's quite clear
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that it's cosmological
in nature.
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Remarkably,
a recent study of the site
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has pushed its origins
even deeper into antiquity.
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In 2024, Dr. Martin Sweatman,
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a professor at
the University of Edinburgh,
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led an unprecedented
investigation of Pillar 43.
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Martin Sweatman
and his colleagues
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used statistical analysis,
AI-type technology
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to see if there were
any constellations
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encoded within
this particular pillar.
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And they eventually
found several matches
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that kind of made sense.
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They also then tried
to put a date stamp on it--
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of when these
particular constellations,
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along with this circle,
which would be the sun--
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when that would have happened.
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They discovered
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that the positioning
of those symbols--
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of the vulture, the scorpion and
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the bird-headed figure--
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matched three constellations.
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It matched Scorpius,
Sagittarius and Ophiuchus
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at a specific time--
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10,500 BC, approximately.
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More than a thousand years
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older than previously thought.
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For ancient
astronaut theorists,
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the possibility
that Göbekli Tepe
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could date to 10,500 BC
is tremendously exciting,
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00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:36,558
because it lines up with an era
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described in Egyptian mythology
as Zep Tepi.
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Ancient Egyptian texts
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have documented there was
a time called Zep Tepi,
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which was about 10,500 BC.
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And that was a time
when the so-called gods--
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lowercase G--
walked amongst human beings.
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We're told
that these star beings
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brought knowledge with them--
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astronomy, agriculture,
civilization--
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and then they leave.
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AI potentially has
the ability to reveal
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a connection among
whoever created Pillar 43
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at Göbekli Tepe
in ancient Egypt.
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Could artificial
intelligence finally provide
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evidence to support what
ancient astronaut theorists
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have been saying all along--
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that ruins around the globe
hold proof
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of extraterrestrial contact
thousands of years ago?
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Perhaps even more compelling
clues came to light
484
00:25:39,288 --> 00:25:42,624
when AI analyzed
some of the most important
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00:25:42,791 --> 00:25:44,877
documents ever discovered:
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the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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At the University of Groningen,
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Professor Mladen Popovic
has developed an AI program
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for a highly specialized
purpose.
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As an expert in ancient Judaism,
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00:26:06,982 --> 00:26:09,651
he wants to incorporate
artificial intelligence
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00:26:09,818 --> 00:26:12,488
in his study
of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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00:26:12,654 --> 00:26:15,866
and the technology is
already beginning to extract
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00:26:16,033 --> 00:26:18,869
incredible new information
from what many consider
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the world's most important
ancient religious documents.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
are so famous
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because they are the most
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ancient manuscripts
of the Hebrew Bible,
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of the Old Testament.
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And many manuscripts,
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we had no idea
that they existed.
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They were found
in the caves in Qumran,
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which is near the Dead Sea.
That's where
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the Dead Sea Scrolls
get their name.
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From 1946 to 1956, they find
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00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:48,607
between, like, eight,
900 of these scrolls.
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Some of them are books
that didn't
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make it into the Bible,
like the Book of Enoch.
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More than 11 copies
of the Book of Enoch
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were found
among the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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And the text
inspired Dr. Popovic
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to name his new program
after the biblical patriarch.
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Enoch is
such a fascinating figure
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in the Old Testament
and the Book of Enoch.
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There was this archangel, Uriel,
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and he showed Enoch
how the cosmos works.
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This Enoch figure is a sort of
an ancient Jewish science hero,
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and I thought it was
very fitting to call it Enoch.
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The Book of Enoch
is a text often cited
520
00:27:30,691 --> 00:27:33,652
as evidence for
the ancient astronaut theory,
521
00:27:33,819 --> 00:27:37,531
because it contains incredible
tales of flying chariots,
522
00:27:37,698 --> 00:27:40,367
a race of giants,
523
00:27:40,534 --> 00:27:44,538
and even otherworldly beings
coming to Earth.
524
00:27:44,705 --> 00:27:46,081
The Book of Enoch
tells of
525
00:27:46,206 --> 00:27:49,209
the arrival of the Watchers,
how they descend
526
00:27:49,376 --> 00:27:52,254
down Mount Hermon,
how they create this hybrid
527
00:27:52,421 --> 00:27:54,214
hybrid offspring, the Nephilim,
528
00:27:54,381 --> 00:27:57,134
and how the watcher angels
then begin to teach humanity
529
00:27:57,301 --> 00:28:01,638
the use of astrology,
weapons, metallurgy.
530
00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:04,016
In ancient astronaut theory,
we understand that
531
00:28:04,182 --> 00:28:07,394
Enoch is describing something
that actually happened.
532
00:28:08,645 --> 00:28:10,772
When the Dead Sea
Scrolls were discovered,
533
00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:13,025
the texts looked like
534
00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:17,362
they came from the time
of Christ, suggesting
535
00:28:17,487 --> 00:28:20,490
that they were written down
at that time.
536
00:28:21,533 --> 00:28:24,202
However, the more
the scholars looked into them,
537
00:28:24,328 --> 00:28:28,248
the more they realized
that they were more ancient.
538
00:28:28,415 --> 00:28:30,000
It's a fascinating
question--
539
00:28:30,125 --> 00:28:32,419
who wrote these manuscripts,
540
00:28:32,628 --> 00:28:34,713
these scrolls,
and who put them in the caves?
541
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,507
And the traditional
interpretation is that
542
00:28:37,674 --> 00:28:39,968
it was this ancient group
called the Essenes.
543
00:28:40,135 --> 00:28:43,597
But their name does not appear
in the Dead Sea Scrolls itself.
544
00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:46,058
It might have been the Essenes,
545
00:28:46,266 --> 00:28:47,726
but we're not sure about that.
546
00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:50,020
Traditional scholarship says,
547
00:28:50,228 --> 00:28:52,773
"Oh, you know, these texts,
these are kind of fantasy.
548
00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:55,984
"These are later interpolations
or embellishments
549
00:28:56,151 --> 00:28:58,070
on what
the original writer meant."
550
00:28:59,613 --> 00:29:02,240
But now
AI might actually reveal
551
00:29:02,366 --> 00:29:06,370
that those texts are much older
than previously thought,
552
00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:09,081
and what they're describing
are not things
553
00:29:09,206 --> 00:29:11,041
that they later made up,
554
00:29:11,208 --> 00:29:12,751
but eyewitness accounts.
555
00:29:13,877 --> 00:29:15,212
We were lucky
to receive samples
556
00:29:15,379 --> 00:29:16,713
of the Dead Sea Scrolls,
557
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,675
physical samples, that
we could radiocarbon date
558
00:29:19,841 --> 00:29:23,595
and that you can
then use to train an algorithm
559
00:29:23,762 --> 00:29:26,807
to associate a certain way
of writing
560
00:29:26,974 --> 00:29:28,725
with a certain time period.
561
00:29:28,892 --> 00:29:32,229
And once the algorithm
is trained to recognize that,
562
00:29:32,396 --> 00:29:35,315
you can feed it images
of other manuscripts
563
00:29:35,482 --> 00:29:38,110
that have no date
and it can compare them.
564
00:29:38,276 --> 00:29:41,113
We learned that
many of these manuscripts
565
00:29:41,279 --> 00:29:44,074
are older than
we previously thought,
566
00:29:44,241 --> 00:29:47,661
from the second century BC or
even from the third century BC.
567
00:29:47,869 --> 00:29:52,124
We now have evidence
that the Dead Sea Scrolls
568
00:29:52,290 --> 00:29:56,878
is from the time
of an actual Biblical author,
569
00:29:57,004 --> 00:29:59,131
which is truly mind-blowing,
because it brings us
570
00:29:59,297 --> 00:30:03,051
to the time of these ancient
Biblical writers themselves.
571
00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:06,179
For the ancient
astronaut theory,
572
00:30:06,388 --> 00:30:09,891
this is significant,
because many of those items
573
00:30:10,058 --> 00:30:11,810
like the flying chariots
574
00:30:11,977 --> 00:30:14,563
were thought
to have been added later
575
00:30:14,688 --> 00:30:17,607
when in fact, it happened
during the time
576
00:30:17,774 --> 00:30:19,901
when these things were
written down,
577
00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:23,780
which would lend to the idea
that our ancestors
578
00:30:23,989 --> 00:30:26,116
actually witnessed something
579
00:30:26,283 --> 00:30:29,536
and commemorated this
when it was happening.
580
00:30:30,579 --> 00:30:32,748
Could it be
that the Dead Sea Scrolls
581
00:30:32,914 --> 00:30:35,375
contain the original
writings of Enoch
582
00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:39,921
and his first-hand accounts
of extraterrestrial contact?
583
00:30:40,047 --> 00:30:45,093
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and they suggest
584
00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:49,139
artificial intelligence
isn't only finding new evidence
585
00:30:49,347 --> 00:30:52,267
of alien intervention
in the distant past
586
00:30:52,434 --> 00:30:55,896
but also revealing that
these otherworldly visitors...
587
00:30:57,314 --> 00:30:58,774
...never left.
588
00:31:08,450 --> 00:31:12,245
A U.S. Customs and
Border Protection airplane
589
00:31:12,412 --> 00:31:16,458
is patrolling above a U.S.
airbase when its thermal camera
590
00:31:16,666 --> 00:31:22,172
captures a large metallic
object flying at high speed.
591
00:31:22,339 --> 00:31:26,176
A mystery object
is seen circling the airport,
592
00:31:26,343 --> 00:31:30,222
and then it moves off
across the ocean.
593
00:31:30,430 --> 00:31:34,476
And at one point
it descends into the ocean,
594
00:31:34,643 --> 00:31:38,188
and then a few moments
later emerges.
595
00:31:39,231 --> 00:31:41,149
We don't have
that kind of technology.
596
00:31:42,859 --> 00:31:45,445
Aerospace engineer
Dr. Travis Taylor,
597
00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:49,491
a member of the U.S.
government's UAP task force,
598
00:31:49,658 --> 00:31:53,078
was asked to analyze
the remarkable footage.
599
00:31:53,245 --> 00:31:55,455
As part of
his investigation
600
00:31:55,664 --> 00:31:57,207
into the strange object,
601
00:31:57,374 --> 00:32:00,961
Dr. Taylor
turned to AI software.
602
00:32:01,086 --> 00:32:02,629
When I was on the UAP
603
00:32:02,796 --> 00:32:05,507
UAP Task Force, we analyzed
all sorts of different,
604
00:32:05,674 --> 00:32:07,050
UAP videos
605
00:32:07,217 --> 00:32:09,010
like the one in Puerto Rico,
606
00:32:09,177 --> 00:32:12,764
and the AI analysis
is really fascinating.
607
00:32:12,931 --> 00:32:15,225
The AI does say that
the object
608
00:32:15,392 --> 00:32:18,061
is going about
72 to 74 miles per hour.
609
00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:21,189
When it goes into the water,
there is no splash.
610
00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:24,734
And it even debunks
one of the debunking videos
611
00:32:24,901 --> 00:32:27,612
out there that says
"Well, it was just a artifact
612
00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:29,865
of the sensors why
you didn't see the wake."
613
00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:34,536
So, AI is being very useful.
614
00:32:34,703 --> 00:32:37,289
As far as
ufologists are concerned,
615
00:32:37,455 --> 00:32:41,626
the AI revolution is happening
at the perfect time
616
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:44,921
because more
sensational UAP events
617
00:32:45,046 --> 00:32:48,258
are being caught on video
than ever before...
618
00:32:49,843 --> 00:32:51,386
...and human observers
619
00:32:51,553 --> 00:32:53,555
simply aren't equipped
to analyze them
620
00:32:53,722 --> 00:32:57,767
in the same way that
artificial intelligence can.
621
00:32:57,934 --> 00:33:00,270
We have
all of this footage
622
00:33:00,437 --> 00:33:04,774
from the past decades
UFO or UAP sightings.
623
00:33:04,941 --> 00:33:07,110
Some of it's shaky,
some of it's blurry.
624
00:33:07,277 --> 00:33:09,988
The AI can look at that
and straighten up those images,
625
00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:12,407
can clean them up for us
so we can
626
00:33:12,574 --> 00:33:14,409
see exactly
what we're looking at.
627
00:33:14,576 --> 00:33:17,412
But more than that,
it can look at whatever's
628
00:33:17,579 --> 00:33:19,915
portrayed in that video,
frame by frame,
629
00:33:20,081 --> 00:33:22,751
and say, "Oh, well,
here's the size of it,
630
00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:25,295
"here's what it's made of,
here's its velocity
631
00:33:25,503 --> 00:33:27,505
and here's where it was going."
632
00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:31,051
AI gets better
with the more things it sees.
633
00:33:31,218 --> 00:33:34,137
So, we need to
grab every UFO video,
634
00:33:34,346 --> 00:33:36,514
every UAP video,
every odd video out there
635
00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:37,974
that we could get our hands on
636
00:33:38,141 --> 00:33:41,311
and start training up
a UAP base
637
00:33:41,478 --> 00:33:44,940
of data for the AI systems.
638
00:33:45,148 --> 00:33:47,442
And it'll help us
start getting to the bottom
639
00:33:47,567 --> 00:33:50,278
of what really is going on
with this phenomenon.
640
00:33:50,445 --> 00:33:54,032
Dr. Travis Taylor is
among many scientists
641
00:33:54,199 --> 00:33:55,992
who are using this tool
to study
642
00:33:56,159 --> 00:33:58,453
unidentified anomalous phenomena,
643
00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:02,249
and he believes that
our own technological evolution
644
00:34:02,415 --> 00:34:07,045
will rely heavily
on artificial intelligence.
645
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:09,672
AI is a fantastic
technology.
646
00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:14,177
It will give you a leg up
on any topic known to man,
647
00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:16,388
and maybe some topics that
we haven't discovered yet.
648
00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:19,306
I use it every day,
649
00:34:19,474 --> 00:34:21,643
and I use it to solve
complex general relativity
650
00:34:21,810 --> 00:34:23,353
and quantum physics problems.
651
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,606
I have used it to solve problems
and discover new concepts
652
00:34:26,773 --> 00:34:29,025
and ideas that
we haven't thought of yet.
653
00:34:29,192 --> 00:34:32,152
I've used it
for Defense Department concepts.
654
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,947
Used it for space
science things.
655
00:34:35,114 --> 00:34:38,159
And I have used it
in the ancient astronaut theory
656
00:34:38,326 --> 00:34:41,705
avenue as well. Because
there are telltale signs
657
00:34:41,871 --> 00:34:43,581
that we miss, as humans.
658
00:34:43,790 --> 00:34:48,253
But the AI is very meticulous
and finds them. I took
659
00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:52,047
an AI system and
analyzed Teotihuacan
660
00:34:52,215 --> 00:34:54,592
and wanted to determine
661
00:34:54,759 --> 00:34:57,637
why these buildings are
in the arrangements they are.
662
00:34:57,804 --> 00:35:01,683
And it turns out that
the ratios of the building sizes
663
00:35:01,850 --> 00:35:03,977
and the distances
between the buildings
664
00:35:04,185 --> 00:35:07,480
match the golden ratio exactly.
665
00:35:07,606 --> 00:35:10,734
So, somebody knew
and understood the golden ratio
666
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:13,278
when Teotihuacan was built.
667
00:35:13,445 --> 00:35:16,031
And why, I haven't
figured out yet.
668
00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:19,409
But AI has already discovered
something about Teotihuacan
669
00:35:19,576 --> 00:35:22,287
that we didn't know before.
And I think that's something
670
00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:23,997
that that we can apply
671
00:35:24,164 --> 00:35:26,750
to sites around the world,
672
00:35:26,916 --> 00:35:28,627
to concepts around the world.
673
00:35:28,793 --> 00:35:32,088
So, we're going to start
seeing answers
674
00:35:32,255 --> 00:35:33,757
and start getting knowledge
675
00:35:33,923 --> 00:35:37,677
that we have lost
or didn't have.
676
00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:40,722
Scientists are also theorizing
677
00:35:40,889 --> 00:35:43,642
that our search for
extraterrestrial intelligence
678
00:35:43,767 --> 00:35:47,520
out in the cosmos
may involve AI envoys.
679
00:35:47,646 --> 00:35:49,814
And some researchers,
680
00:35:49,981 --> 00:35:52,859
like theoretical physicist
Dr. Michio Kaku,
681
00:35:53,068 --> 00:35:56,613
suggest that if the UAPs
seen in our skies
682
00:35:56,780 --> 00:35:59,199
are of extraterrestrial origin,
683
00:35:59,366 --> 00:36:04,037
they could very well be a type
of AI technology themselves.
684
00:36:04,204 --> 00:36:06,122
We have been brainwashed.
685
00:36:06,289 --> 00:36:08,917
Brainwashed by Hollywood
into thinking
686
00:36:09,084 --> 00:36:12,379
that when the aliens
land on the White House lawn
687
00:36:12,587 --> 00:36:15,048
that they look sort of like us.
688
00:36:15,215 --> 00:36:16,841
Realize that, in reality,
689
00:36:17,008 --> 00:36:18,927
that is the most
inefficient way
690
00:36:19,094 --> 00:36:20,845
to explore the universe.
691
00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:23,890
There are so many
worlds to visit,
692
00:36:24,057 --> 00:36:26,351
but to visit each one
693
00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:28,895
with a humanoid being
694
00:36:29,062 --> 00:36:32,357
is a waste of time,
it's a waste of effort.
695
00:36:32,524 --> 00:36:35,360
It's much better to
use artificial intelligence
696
00:36:35,485 --> 00:36:38,279
to explore the universe.
697
00:36:38,405 --> 00:36:42,701
Artificial intelligence can
cut through the painstaking work
698
00:36:42,909 --> 00:36:46,746
of astronauts visiting
one planet at a time
699
00:36:46,913 --> 00:36:49,332
and give us a readout
700
00:36:49,499 --> 00:36:52,961
of a thousand worlds
all at once.
701
00:36:54,963 --> 00:36:56,715
Could artificial intelligence
702
00:36:56,881 --> 00:36:59,175
lead to profound new revelations
703
00:36:59,342 --> 00:37:03,596
about not only the unexplained
phenomena in our skies
704
00:37:03,763 --> 00:37:07,726
but also the mysteries
of our distant past?
705
00:37:07,892 --> 00:37:10,854
According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
706
00:37:11,020 --> 00:37:13,398
AI may already have uncovered
707
00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:16,401
an incredible secret
of the ancient world
708
00:37:16,568 --> 00:37:20,697
buried deep beneath
the Pyramids of Egypt.
709
00:37:28,872 --> 00:37:32,876
Engineer and geospatial analyst
Dr. Filippo Biondi
710
00:37:33,042 --> 00:37:37,005
has spent months working with
a team of Italian researchers
711
00:37:37,172 --> 00:37:40,133
to investigate what lies
beneath the iconic structures
712
00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:43,553
that stand on the Giza Plateau.
713
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:46,723
A technology called
synthetic aperture radar
714
00:37:46,890 --> 00:37:49,934
has allowed them to
peer deep underground,
715
00:37:50,101 --> 00:37:54,105
and what they claim
to have found is extraordinary.
716
00:38:31,059 --> 00:38:33,186
Under the
Giza Plateau, they found
717
00:38:33,353 --> 00:38:36,231
huge underground chambers
and shafts
718
00:38:36,397 --> 00:38:38,149
and structures under the Sphinx,
719
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,235
under the other pyramids,
and everything else.
720
00:38:40,401 --> 00:38:43,613
So what they discovered
is quite remarkable.
721
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:48,368
What was detected
with synthetic aperture radar
722
00:38:48,535 --> 00:38:50,537
was astonishing.
723
00:38:50,703 --> 00:38:53,289
And when artificial
intelligence was employed
724
00:38:53,456 --> 00:38:55,667
to analyze the SAR scans,
725
00:38:55,834 --> 00:38:59,587
the resulting models
were even more incredible.
726
00:39:01,256 --> 00:39:03,299
Using AI,
they've recreated
727
00:39:03,508 --> 00:39:05,802
what it would have looked like.
It looks like
728
00:39:05,927 --> 00:39:09,138
these eight tubes going down
with what looked like
729
00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:13,935
cylindrical kind of cavities
going deep under the ground.
730
00:39:14,102 --> 00:39:16,020
The evidence
is now emerging that there's
731
00:39:16,229 --> 00:39:18,481
something much more
profound going on there.
732
00:39:43,089 --> 00:39:45,633
If the mysterious
chambers under the Giza Plateau
733
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,927
do in fact exist,
734
00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:51,681
it would upend our
understanding of human history.
735
00:39:51,806 --> 00:39:55,977
And as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
736
00:39:56,185 --> 00:39:58,396
it is only a matter of time
737
00:39:58,563 --> 00:40:00,398
before artificial intelligence
738
00:40:00,565 --> 00:40:02,692
provides incontrovertible
evidence
739
00:40:02,859 --> 00:40:05,987
of ET intervention on Earth.
740
00:40:06,154 --> 00:40:10,658
If I myself
had access to an AI model,
741
00:40:10,867 --> 00:40:14,245
that could essentially
tell me anything,
742
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:17,081
what I would do
is I'd feed into it
743
00:40:17,206 --> 00:40:19,918
all knowledge
of ancient cosmologies
744
00:40:20,084 --> 00:40:21,794
from around the world,
745
00:40:21,961 --> 00:40:26,132
and allow it
to tell us where exactly
746
00:40:26,299 --> 00:40:31,721
this knowledge came from
and just when it was created.
747
00:40:31,846 --> 00:40:35,350
And my own heart tells me
that it's gonna go back
748
00:40:35,516 --> 00:40:39,604
at least to 40
to 50,000 years ago
749
00:40:39,771 --> 00:40:43,441
and to have come from an
enlightened human population
750
00:40:43,566 --> 00:40:46,152
that existed at this time,
751
00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:51,282
who we can truly refer to
as the lost civilization.
752
00:40:52,325 --> 00:40:55,411
In ancient astronaut
theory, the idea is that these
753
00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:59,207
extraterrestrials are
leaving clues around the world.
754
00:40:59,374 --> 00:41:02,585
Clues of buildings and of texts,
755
00:41:02,752 --> 00:41:06,923
other things that, you know,
are difficult to figure out.
756
00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:09,592
And AI is helping
us find those things.
757
00:41:09,759 --> 00:41:12,053
And AI is helping us, you know,
758
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:15,765
ultimately find out who we are
and where we came from.
759
00:41:17,308 --> 00:41:19,894
Could it be that the
rise of artificial intelligence
760
00:41:20,061 --> 00:41:22,105
will not only
have profound implications
761
00:41:22,271 --> 00:41:26,109
for the future of humanity
762
00:41:26,275 --> 00:41:31,155
but also provide incredible
revelations about our past?
763
00:41:31,322 --> 00:41:36,285
Will AI uncover evidence
for the ancient astronaut theory
764
00:41:36,452 --> 00:41:39,789
hidden in undeciphered texts,
765
00:41:39,956 --> 00:41:42,792
encoded in
megalithic structures
766
00:41:42,959 --> 00:41:46,254
and buried with
long-lost civilizations?
767
00:41:47,672 --> 00:41:52,552
Perhaps, as this powerful
technology continues to advance,
768
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:56,139
it will reveal that
the history of humankind
769
00:41:56,347 --> 00:42:00,685
has been written
by extraterrestrials.
770
00:42:00,852 --> 00:42:02,812
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