Character creator AI puts Barack Obama – or anyone – in a video game

An artificial intelligence could soon allow players to transform their video game character to look like anything or anyone they want, simply by typing a description. "If you want to be a movie star, or you want to be an animal, or you want to be anything, you just type on your keyboard and, boom, you will have a character that looks like what you described," says Zhengxia Zou at Beihang University in Beijing, China.