By John Glenday

He may no longer be resident of the White House but former US president Barack Obama is still making some presidential speeches, although all is not as it appears.

Despite looking and sounding exactly like the real deal the new Obama is actually a digital construction carefully crafted by researchers at the University of Washington who fed 14 hours of genuine speeches into a neural net which has binge-watched so much footage it can now generate new clips indistinguishable from reality.

The result is that researchers are now able to put any words of their choosing into the mouth of Read full story ›

Source: The Drum