The artificial intelligence that holds the public’s attention writes essays, answers questions and holds a conversation. The artificial intelligence that is changing what scientists can actually do tends to be narrower, quieter and far less talkative. It reads charred scrolls no one can physically open, ranks a million galaxies to pull out the rare ones, [...] The post The most powerful AI stories right now are not chatbots. They are the quiet algorithms reading burnt Roman scrolls, trawling thr