AI agents went through lidar scans of the jungle and found Maya ruins 🏛

48 AI agents went through lidar scans of the jungle and found Maya ruins 🏛 The author turned NASA lidar data (about 1,200 km² of jungle) into images and handed them to 48 agents. They went through the images one by one, like patient archaeologists. • they looked for pyramids, platforms and plazas, filtering out hills, sinkholes and roads • no special model or classifier: the agents looked at the images following precise instructions • overnight they picked up dozens of settlements, and one was checked against the literature and archives: an oval pyramid 8–12 m high, a plaza, a courtyard ⚠️ Update from the author, November 11: the site had already been mapped in a paper by Estrada-Belli et al. 2025. The agents missed it in the literature, so this is more of a rediscovery. Still, the approach itself works. https://pietromiotti.com/latest/maya-site/?maya