Artificial intelligence – some people are all shook up about it, but it's changing the world inside and out. Elvis Presley is slated to return to the stage as a life-sized A.I. hologram for an immersive show in London this November, followed by other major cities across the world, according to Variety. The "immersive concert experience," headed by immersive tech-based entertainment company Layered Reality, will allow fans to experience some of the legend's hits in concert decades after his death. "The show peaks with a concert experience that will recreate the seismic impact of seeing Elvis live for a whole new generation of fans, blurring the lines between reality and fantasy," the show's website reads. DOLLY PARTON, WHOOPI GOLDBERG ARE ANTI-HOLOGRAMS; EXPERT WARNS THEY'CAN NEVER FULLY ENSURE' AGAINST USE American rock singer Elvis Presley (1935-1977), wearing a white rhinestone-studded suit and strapped guitar.

It's impossible to avoid Elvis Presley in Las Vegas: his image appears on street art and photographs, while impersonators can be found all over the strip. But starting on Friday, the King of Rock and Roll will get possibly his largest tribute yet: a video collage that renders him hundreds of times, projected hundreds of feet into the air, in incarnations young and old, gyrating and reclining, in bas relief and gold, all thanks to a technology created long after his death: generative AI. The video collage is the creation of the artist Marco Brambilla, the director of Demolition Man and Kanye West's "Power" music video, among many other art projects. Brambilla fed hours of footage from Presley's movies and performances into the AI model Stable Diffusion to create an easily searchable library to pull from, and then created surreal new images by prompting the AI model Midjourney with questions like: "What would Elvis look like if he were sculpted by the artist who made the Statue of Liberty?" The kaleidoscopic result, called "King Size," will make its debut as part of U2's concert performance at the opening night of the Sphere, a $2.3 billion entertainment venue that sits a block from the Las Vegas Strip and hopes to be the city's latest colossal entertainment mecca.

The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. The Australian writer, director, and producer is known for his flashy, hyper-realistic style, and on this particular New York night he's in a sparse, brightly lit former taxi warehouse in Chelsea, talking to a robot. The bot's name is Ai-Da; she's a painter powered by artificial intelligence. Before Luhrmann took the stage next to her, she was doing a watercolor while people gawked and took photos. "Did you see Elvis, Ai-Da?" he asked.