With its vastly rich history and culture, India is a heritage-lover’s paradise. But there’s a problem. A large number of monuments, museums and art is either badly maintained or looks unsalvageable. Solutions from the world of AI, however, argue that things need not be the way they are right now. AI can be used to travel in time to see how the object was originally and attempt to restore it to a large extent. Credits: Narration: Harsha Bhogle Executive Producer: Gaurav Vaz Producer: Archana Nathan Research, Interviews and Scripts: Prthvir Solanki Narrative overview: Charu Sharma and Shriram Parthasarathy Title track, sound design and background score: Nikhil Rao, Avyay Gujral and Abhijit Nath. All clips and voices used in this podcast are owned by the original creators We thank wholeheartedly all our guests who appeared on this episode Benoy K. Behl, art historian, filmmaker and photographer Ashwin Srivastava, CEO of Sapio Analytics Professor Ronojoy Adhikari, Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at University of Cambridge Fabin Rasheed, Creator of Auria Kathi Sahej Rahal, Digital Artist Links to clips used in the episode and citations: The Arctic World Archives website: https://arcticworldarchive.org/ Mann Ki Baat Episode where Narendra Modi mentions the Sapio Analytics Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7gEx18Zw98 Explore the ancient city of Olympia through Microsoft’s project: https://inculture.microsoft.com/arts/ancient-olympia-common-grounds/ A short article about the AI painting sold at Christie’s: https://www.christies.com/features/a-collaboration-between-two-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx Auria Kathi’s Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vR2kaFXSd/ To learn how Microsoft is working to empower every developer to innovate, every organization to transform industries and every individual to transform society through its differentiated Microsoft AI & Innovation vision, please visit microsoft.com/ai