Museum researches Champlain shipwrecks

Those large yellow buoys you may see floating atop Lake Champlain aren’t for monitoring the weather, nor are they for decoration. Instead, they mark the final resting places of centuries-old ships that wrecked on the lakebed.

Can Vermont legislators distinguish an AI-generated portrait from a real one? That was the question facing the Senate Government Operations committee last week as members watched pictures from a New York Times quiz designed to test just that.

Spectators mingled amid camp chairs and canopies as they gathered at Chimney Point State Historic Site in Addison on Saturday last month, primed for views of the Adirondacks across Lake Champlain.