Ever wondered what Mona Lisa would look like rapping? Microsoft launches VASA-1 AI bot that can make images talk - with eerily realistic results

The boundary between what's real and what's not is becoming ever thinner thanks to a new AI tool from Microsoft. Called VASA-1, the technology transforms a still image of a person's face into an animated clip of them talking or singing. Lip movements are'exquisitely synchronised' with audio to make it seem like the subject has come to life, the tech giant claims. In one example, Leonardo da Vinci's 16th century masterpiece'The Mona Lisa' starts rapping crudely in an American accent. However, Microsoft admits the tool could be'misused for impersonating humans' and is not releasing it to the public.