When we go to a museum, we see beautiful paintings displayed in its halls, and we naturally assume that they are authentic. While admiring the paintings, the viewer may never realize how much effort the museum has put into verifying their authenticity. Carina shows how this process can be simplified through the use of modern technology. The audience is invited to a presentation about using Artificial Intelligence to authenticate works of art, and its relevance to the preservation of our cultural heritage.

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Carina Popovici is a co-founder and CEO of Art Recognition, a Zurich based ArtTech startup which offers to the art world an AI Engine for art authentication and forgery detection. While being an art lover, she is also an experienced programmer, having developed in the past AI algorithms with applications in physics and finance. Carina received a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Tübingen, and has continued her career as a Research Fellow in Physics. She then moved on to work as a quantitative risk specialist in the Swiss banking industry, before founding Art Recognition. Now, Art Recognition is the only company worldwide offering an AI authentication service commercially, and one of the few startups operating at the forefront of AI, entirely created and led by women. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx