How Tupac and Thanos led to Douglas, the most impressively humanlike A.I. yet

01.29.21At a time when visual effects studios have de-aged veteran actors, allowed human performers to inhabit digital creations, and even brought deceased artists back for postmortem performances, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that a VFX studio can also make it possible for you to find yourself chatting with an artificially intelligent digital person about your favorite books and mutually lamenting the inability to visit a movie theater.

It shouldn’t be surprising, and yet, it’s still an odd feeling to suddenly find a sympathetic ear in Douglas, a virtual, A.I.-driven “person” created by Oscar-winning VFX studio Digital Domain.

Link to article: https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/douglas-digital-domain-artificial-intelligence-human/