WATCH: New artificial intelligence program brings old photos to life - NBC2 News

CNN – Like a scene from Harry Potter -- new technology can now animate old pictures to move and show emotion. The genealogy platform MyHeritage created an artificial intelligence program called Deep Nostalgia. Users can see people like Frederick Douglass come alive with the click of a button. He blinks and nods as if he were just alive yesterday and hadn't died in 1895, years before film recording became commonplace. Users can to supply old photos of their loved ones, and the program uses deep learning to apply predetermined movements to their facial features.