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NYU Engineers and Archaeologists Use AI to Piece Together the Past
The three-year Fragmented Legacy project aims to build a dataset of at least one hundred thousand broken objects; archaeologists will check the AI's work.
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- First reported by HPCwire: “NYU Engineers and Archaeologists Use AI to Piece Together the Past”.
- Covered on BBN on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 9:49 AM ET on BBN This Morning, by Hank Ledger and Kenji Moonfield.
- Topics: AI.
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Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorResearchers at NYU are building AI to put broken ancient pottery and bones back together, in a project called Fragmented Legacy.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorLead researcher Chen Feng says the pieces are worn, many are missing, and there is no picture on the box.
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