{"id":189207,"date":"2024-05-11T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/bionic-eye-discovers-platos-final-resting-place"},"modified":"2024-05-11T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T20:31:46","slug":"bionic-eye-discovers-platos-final-resting-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/bionic-eye-discovers-platos-final-resting-place","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBionic eye\u201d discovers Plato\u2019s final resting place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bionic-eye-discovers-platos-final-resting-place2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This led to the creation of a \u201cbionic eye\u201d that uses a combination of AI and several advanced scanning techniques, including optical imaging, thermal imaging, and tomography (the technique used for CT scans), to capture differences between parts of the scrolls that were blank and those that contained ink \u2014 all without having to physically unroll them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where\u2019s Plato? <\/strong>On April 23, team leader Graziano Ranocchia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnr.it\/it\/nota-stampa\/n-12655\/lo-sguardo-tecnologico-legge-i-papiri-carbonizzati\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> that the group had managed to extract about 1,000 words from a scroll titled \u201cThe History of the Academy\u201d and that the words revealed Plato\u2019s burial place: a private part of the garden near a shrine to the Muses.<\/p>\n<p>The recovered text, which accounted for about 30% of the scroll, also revealed that Plato may have been sold into slavery between 404 and 399 BC \u2014 historians previously thought this had happened later in the philosopher\u2019s life, around 387 BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This led to the creation of a \u201cbionic eye\u201d that uses a combination of AI and several advanced scanning techniques, including optical imaging, thermal imaging, and tomography (the technique used for CT scans), to capture differences between parts of the scrolls that were blank and those that contained ink \u2014 all without having to physically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}