6 ways AI is helping us learn more about our past - and future

Artificial intelligence (AI) is usually associated with getting us to the future faster, but it can also be a powerful tool in uncovering the past. Here are 6 ways the technology is being used around the world to help us understand the past and prepare for the future. An inscription showing Algorithm helping historians restore Greek inscriptions. An AI algorithm called Ithaca is helping historians restore ancient Greek inscriptions. Researchers at British AI firm DeepMind trained the algorithm on around 60,000 ancient Greek texts from across the Mediterranean that were written between 700 BC and AD 500.