Facebook's body-swapping AI has Hollywood written all over it

If you thought DeepFakes, the AI that swaps celebrity faces into any video (like porn), was scary wait until you see what Facebook's DensePose can do. Facebook's AI research (FAIR) division last week revealed the details of a neural network that maps 2D images to humans in videos. Basically the team taught AI how to add "skins" to people in videos – in real-time. If you've ever wanted to live in a world where, at the push of a button, you could turn all the people in any video into a Wookie (for example) this is fabulous news for you. While there have been other 2D image-mapping neural networks, this one is the first to put it all together in real-time and effectively "connect the dots" without a depth sensor.