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Character creator AI puts Barack Obama – or anyone – in a video game

An artificial intelligence in the game Justice Online will let players customise characters to look like anything they want, including celebrities or dog people, just by typing in instructions – and the tech could make it to other games too

By Matthew Sparkes

10 March 2023

Former US president Barack Obama, as visualised by the AI for Justice Onlin

Former US president Barack Obama, as visualised by the AI for Justice Online

Rui Zhao et al. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2023.

An artificial intelligence could soon allow players to transform their video game character to look like anything or anyone they want, simply by typing a description.

“If you want to be a movie star, or you want to be an animal, or you want to be anything, you just type on your keyboard and, boom, you will have a character that looks like what you described,” says at Beihang University…

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