YouTube's new documentary demystifying artificial intelligence features Robert Downey Jr. and an AI baby

YouTube has launched a new free-to-watch documentary series about artificial intelligence fronted by "Iron Man" star Robert Downey Jr. The YouTube Original series debuted on the platform on Wednesday, and is called "The Age of AI." Its stated aim is to demystify misconceptions around AI. One of the main focuses of the first episode is a New Zealand-based company called Soul Machines, which specialises in making digital avatars. Its founder Mark Sagar is an award-winning visual effects artist who's worked on films like "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and "Avatar." Sagar is working on a project he calls "Baby X," in which he is using AI to simulate a human baby, modelled after his own daughter.