My AI agents found an unmapped Maya site in Mexico, using LiDAR data from a NASA dataset.
72 hours from a random thought on vacation to a reply from Mexico's national archaeology institute.
What a time to be alive…
While traveling, I asked my agents: what would a modern Hiram Bingham (the explorer who found Machu Picchu) do with today's tools? Their answer: "LiDAR". They found a dataset and spent one night working on it. They had flagged tons of potential structures across Mexico.
Then I asked: which of these don't appear anywhere in the literature or the archives?
They narrowed it down to one.
I asked what to do next. Their advice: report it to INAH (Mexico's national institute of anthropology and history), since they may hold records that aren't public.
They drafted the report, translated it into Spanish, and I sent it.
INAH confirmed the site isn't on their maps.
To be clear, that's not official yet. The next step is a visit by archaeologists with the proper permits.
I think we're on the brink of a revolution across every science, not just coding, physics and math.
And at this point we should LiDAR the entire planet and let agents help us find the rest.
Full story here https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site/