48 AI Agents Scanned 1,200 km2 of Jungle Lidar - and Flagged a Maya Pyramid Missing From the Register
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What happened In October, software engineer Pietro Miotti was traveling in Peru, reading about Hiram Bingham "discovering" Machu Picchu in 1911, when he had a very 2025 thought: what would Bingham do with today's tools? He asked several AI agents (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok). They all gave th…
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48 AI Agents Scanned 1,200 km2 of Jungle Lidar - and Flagged a Maya Pyramid Missing From the Register