A creepy AI transfers the facial expressions of one person to another to create eerily realistic'deep fake' videos. The software accurately flips a segment of one video - such as the mouth of a character - to the style of another to create life-like fake clips. A video produced by the team transferred the mouth movements of British comedian John Oliver onto the face of US talk-show host Stephen Colbert. Researchers warned the technology could be used to create fake news clips that falsely put words into the mouths of politicians or other powerful figures. An AI transfers the facial expressions of one person to another to create eerily realistic'deep fake' videos.

In a time when real intelligence is so hard to find, we are now seeing an unusual growth of the artificial type. I don't want to quibble, but have we not had enough of artificial stuff such as sweetener, artificial lemon flavor and artificial lips? Naturally, it is wonderful that people have created artificial arms or legs. But what were they thinking when creating an artificial brain? However – this is true – right now in Japan there is a beloved artificial intelligence "boy" who has many friends.