Artificial Intelligence is transforming virtually every industry around the world, with the latest developments bringing changes to movie production. In Hollywood, one company - Deep Voodoo - is changing the way studios create visual effects.

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How AI is transforming Hollywood

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has warned that AI has the potential to revolutionize everything. And we're already seeing its impact in Hollywood. The industry grappling with both the potential and the potential problems of A.I. Julia Boorstin has that story for us. Hollywood production is being transformed by artificial intelligence. Deep Voodoo is a visual effects company that specializes in what they call facial replacement A.I. What's a funny face I should make like. In about 30 minutes they scanned my every expression to learn my facial movements. And two weeks later we put the algorithm to the test with a body double and a live camera. Here we go. Oh my God. So weird. Not my hair but it's totally my face. While visual effects have a long history in Hollywood deep voodoo's precision and live render feature have won over celebrities like Kendrick Lamar who use their technology to wear the faces of other celebrities. In a traditional VFX scenario it would be stuck in post and they wouldn't be able to see it until it was a finished shot. So you can have actors wear the mask of another actor's face while they're shooting the movie rather than having to wait until it's all done to do the face swap. Absolutely. Yeah. Julie you don't have to show up for work. Deep Voodoo says it's working with studios to put actors faces on stunt doubles and even to revive deceased movie stars. How much is your technology threatened people's jobs. This enables people to do their jobs quicker better and cheaper. But it is it's a creative tool and it needs to be operated by creative people. But with all of this new technology come new concerns. The Screen Actors Guild telling us quote our goal is to ensure that our members are protected from unauthorized use of their names voices and likenesses. We intend to expand those protections as a uses are addressed on movie sets like this one. I is not only being used to clone actors faces and voices. It's also being deployed to do CGI and visual effects faster and easier than ever before. Wonder Dynamics quickly transformed me into these characters. Their AI technology can replace a human actor with a computer generated figure in hours. It's waving its arms around the way I move my hands when I talk. Actor and company co-founder Ty Sheridan was inspired to improve visual effects after his experience wearing motion capture sensors on Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One. We always wanted to tell stories that were bigger than our our pockets. And that's really kind of what led us to start in this company. Along with his co-founder Nikola Todorovic Sheridan is hoping to make premium visual effects easier and more affordable. And one minute scene like this would normally take weeks to render. With our technology we're really hoping to bring it to a day or a couple of hours depending on what shot is. So it becomes much faster but also more cost efficient. Exactly. And more accessible because all you need is a browser web browser and a camera. Wonder Dynamics says hundreds of thousands of users have signed up to try its platform and productions in the works for Netflix are already using it. Is it going to eliminate the need for actors. Absolutely not. Never put myself out of work. No I think it's good. If anything I think it'll create more opportunities for actors to be in these type of films. And if it works what used to be science fiction can become an A.I. reality.

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