Amazing AI turns your selfie into a 3D video game character

If the idea of navigating through dense character customization menus in a video game is too daunting, fret not! A team of artificial intelligence developers is on the case, Synced Review reports. A new AI tool can take a picture of your face, map your features, and automatically turn them into a video game character, according to research shared on the preprint server ArXiv last week -- a fascinating preview of how AI could come to create richly personalized digital content in gaming and beyond. Specifically, the AI generates characters in the style of the popular Chinese game "Justice Online" -- half the AI developers work for NetEase, the company behind the game. The researchers write that their tool was first integrated into the game in October. Since then, they report that it's been used by over 1 million Chinese gamers who wanted to create as lifelike a character as possible.