Adobe's terrifying new AI turned me into a Conan O'Brien sex doll

On the eve of a big announcement, Adobe wrote me to offer an exclusive first look at Characterizer. It's a new feature in the company's Character Animator app, and it allows you to take any portrait drawn in any style, then apply it like a filter to your own face in real-time video. Design and AI nerds know this trick as "style transfer," and it already exists in apps like Prisma. Adobe is trying to push the medium further with options for deep customization, pushing this nascent tech toward ubiquitous professional use. The company showed off a sneak peak last year under the code name "Project Puppetron."