People are now able to walk through the ancient site of Olympia as it stood more than 2,000 years ago, thanks to artificial intelligence. The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport and Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced'Ancient Olympia: Common Grounds', a new collaboration to digitally preserve and restore ancient Olympia, the original home of the Olympic games, using AI. This digital revival project allows viewers around the world to explore ancient Olympia through an immersive experience via an interactive mobile app, web-based desktop experience, or a Microsoft HoloLens 2 exhibition at the Athens Olympic Museum. "Digitally preserving ancient Olympia gives people a way to walk through the site during one of history's most important periods -- brought to life in a realistic, engaging way that was never before possible. This new form of digital archiving will continue to offer a portal to another era, helping us understand what humanity has achieved in the past and reminding us of what we're capable of today," explains Microsoft in a media release about the new project.

Viewers around the world can see the site of the first ever Olympic Games as it looked in its prime more than 2,000 years ago thanks to a digital reconstruction. 'Ancient Olympia: Common Grounds' stems from collaboration between the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sport and Microsoft's AI for Cultural Heritage initiative. Microsoft teamed with tech firm Iconem to take hundreds of thousands of images of the ancient site as it lies today -- both with ground- and drone-based cameras. These were processed by Microsoft AI to create models so precise they are photo-realistic and from which the ancient monuments could be digitally reconstructed. The first games took place in Olympia in 776 BC, and recurred every four year until at least AD 393 and they perhaps continued until the Temple of Zeus burnt in 425 AD.

The thought leadership conference and exhibition AI Expo Global is set to arrive in London's Olympia on April 18-19 and will bring together AI leaders from key industries covering marketing, finance, government, public sector, healthcare, cybersecurity, HR and recruitment, automotive, industrial, developer, enterprise, and consumer sectors. With four dedicated AI conference tracks, over 12,000 attendees, 500 speakers, 300 exhibitors, and three co-located events, the AI Expo is one for technology enthusiasts and business leaders' calendars. Attendees can discover how AI is being implemented and monetized, and network with industry leaders, practitioners, and investors. Topics covered over the two-day conference include deep learning, machine learning, AI algorithms, data analytics, digital transformation, chatbots, virtual assistants, AI enterprise strategy, AI regulation and legislation, AI in the workplace, cybersecurity, AI for social good, and many more. Healthcare: Clinical trial participant identifier, preliminary diagnosis, automated image diagnosis, virtual nursing assistants, robot-assisted surgery, dosage error reduction, security, and connected machines across the industry.

The AI Conference & Exhibition taking place 18-19th April at London's Olympia is a showcase of next generation technologies and strategies from the world of Artificial Intelligence, an opportunity to explore and discover the practical and successful implementation of AI in driving forward your business in 2018 and beyond. The high-level conference will bring together forward thinking brands, market leaders, AI evangelists and hot start-ups to explore and debate the advancements in Artificial Intelligence and the impacts within the Enterprise & Consumer sectors. Topics covered include Business Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, AI Algorithms, Data & Analytics, Virtual Assistants & Chatbots as well as case study based presentations proving an insight into the deployment of AI across different verticals. The AI Expo will bring together over 2,000 visitors over the two days including IT decision makers, developers & designers, heads of innovation, brand managers, data analysts and scientists, start-ups and innovators, tech providers and venture capitalists. The AI Expo will be co-hosted alongside the IoT Tech Expo, the largest global gathering for the Internet of Things sector, and Blockchain Expo, with both shows attracting in excess of 9,000 attendees for two days of insightful content covering the whole ecosystem surrounding IoT & Blockchain.

Kodak's "Shirley Card" was given to photo processors to judge coloring in photos (Photo: the Nick DeWolf Foundation / Susan Etlinger) Is artificial intelligence bound to its makers' prejudices? At TEDxBerlin, data analyst Susan Etlinger turns to the past to investigate the future of AI. In the 1950s, photography in the U.S. was dominated by the Kodak company, and its staff's opinions of what is normal, Etlinger says. The company sent photo processors color-correction cards based on a single model named Shirley -- a white woman -- and Shirley became the poster woman for "normal" coloring in photos. "If Shirley looked good, the prints looked good," Etlinger says, "…and this was terrible for photographs of people of color."