The AI turned 12,000 newspaper pages into a wildfire timeline

He pointed the AI Fable at a newspaper archive and asked for a timeline of wildfire events in and around the Adirondacks. The result is an interactive timeline built from 12,000 pages of newspapers.

How it works

Points the AI Fable at a newspaper archive
Asks for a timeline of wildfire events inside the park, on its edge and directly outside
Gets an interactive timeline built from 12,000 pages

Why it’s worth knowing

The AI read through 12,000 pages of old newspapers and turned the wildfire mentions into one interactive timeline he could browse.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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