Engineer says AI agents flagged an unregistered Maya site in lidar
Original title: Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmapped Maya pyramid in 72h
INAH replied that no registered archaeological site matched the reported location; the find is not officially confirmed.
A Google software engineer says 48 AI agents reviewed public NASA lidar covering about 1,200 square kilometers and flagged a hilltop site in Mexico that he then reported to INAH. INAH replied on October 21 that its records showed no registered archaeological site at the given location. The author, who says he is not an archaeologist, interprets the shapes as a possible Classic-period Maya civic center. He sent coordinates only in a confidential annex and offered to help with an INAH-led field check.
Unconfirmed: INAH only said the location was not in its register; the site has not been confirmed by fieldwork.
- Agents inspected lidar images with a written guide, not a custom classifier.
- The author says the workflow took less than 72 hours from idea to INAH’s reply.
- Raw point-cloud slices were checked so shapes were not tree artifacts.
- The period and function described in the post are the author’s speculation.
- Countries
- Mexico
From the original article
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By analyzing NASA lidar data, my AI agents discovered a Maya site in Mexico that, as far as anyone can tell, no one had reported before. It took less than 72 hours to go from a random thought while traveling to an official reply from the Mexican government. This is by far the best time ever to be alive.
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