EVERYTHING these days is becoming automatic, from self-service checkouts to self-driving cars, jobs are being taken away from real people. One job that always felt secure was acting. Conveying human emotion isn't easy for humans to do, let alone robots. However, one company, Altered AI, hopes to break through this barrier, promising to give game developers the tools to "create compelling, professional voice performances." Currently, around 20 professional voice actors have lent their work to the database, with hundreds more "common" voices fleshing out its library.

Serkis explains visual effects studio, Weta, has 17 years' worth of data on his face which allows them to match what he does to the computer generated characters.