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AI Found a Painting Stolen in 1972. How Italy Is Using Tech to Recover Missing Art

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AI can recognise altered paintings and fragments sold separately, but it has limits.

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A painting that was stolen twenty years ago will soon hang back in its familiar spot in a small Italian church. The Italian police tracked down the seventeenth-century masterpiece with the help of an unusual sleuth, namely artificial intelligence (AI).

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A painting that was stolen twenty years ago will soon hang back in its familiar spot in a small Italian church. The Italian police tracked down the seventeenth-century masterpiece with the help of an unusual sleuth, namely artificial intelligence (AI).

Before the introduction of artificial intelligence, police officers searched for stolen items by comparing what they would find in antique shops, at fairs and auctions with data from the database

A 17th-century painting stolen from a small church near Naples in 2004 has been found at an antiques exhibition thanks to an artificial intelligence system. The work…More...

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