Devin Gordon

The premise and starting point was... my sense that if you were listening to the discourse about AI in Hollywood, you would either hear that it was going to be the end of Hollywood and wipe out everyone's jobs and turn the future of cinema over to robots, or it was going to be the greatest creative unlocking opportunity magical wand ever handed to creative filmmakers in the history of humankind.

The premise and starting point was... my sense that if you were listening to the discourse about AI in Hollywood, you would either hear that it was going to be the end of Hollywood and wipe out everyone's jobs and turn the future of cinema over to robots, or it was going to be the greatest creative unlocking opportunity magical wand ever handed to creative filmmakers in the history of humankind.

The premise and starting point was... my sense that if you were listening to the discourse about AI in Hollywood, you would either hear that it was going to be the end of Hollywood and wipe out everyone's jobs and turn the future of cinema over to robots, or it was going to be the greatest creative unlocking opportunity magical wand ever handed to creative filmmakers in the history of humankind.

And I had also been hearing and reading these stories in places like the Hollywood Reporter,

And I had also been hearing and reading these stories in places like the Hollywood Reporter,

And I had also been hearing and reading these stories in places like the Hollywood Reporter,

And so I was like, okay, well, what are people actually using it for? What is actually happening with AI? So I started with a visual effects company that works with AI called Metaphysic. The reason why I wanted to start with them is because everything I kept hearing was that When AI descended upon Hollywood, it was going to hit visual effects first and hardest.

And so I was like, okay, well, what are people actually using it for? What is actually happening with AI? So I started with a visual effects company that works with AI called Metaphysic. The reason why I wanted to start with them is because everything I kept hearing was that When AI descended upon Hollywood, it was going to hit visual effects first and hardest.

And so I was like, okay, well, what are people actually using it for? What is actually happening with AI? So I started with a visual effects company that works with AI called Metaphysic. The reason why I wanted to start with them is because everything I kept hearing was that When AI descended upon Hollywood, it was going to hit visual effects first and hardest.

So I wanted to start with a visual effects company. And this particular special effects company, visual effects company Metaphysic, their specialty was sort of taking... the deepfake logic and of digitally creating a photorealistic copy of a famous person's face and applying that to all sorts of aspects of the filmmaking industry from

So I wanted to start with a visual effects company. And this particular special effects company, visual effects company Metaphysic, their specialty was sort of taking... the deepfake logic and of digitally creating a photorealistic copy of a famous person's face and applying that to all sorts of aspects of the filmmaking industry from

So I wanted to start with a visual effects company. And this particular special effects company, visual effects company Metaphysic, their specialty was sort of taking... the deepfake logic and of digitally creating a photorealistic copy of a famous person's face and applying that to all sorts of aspects of the filmmaking industry from

special effects, to dubbing, to reshoots, animation, aging and de-aging, et cetera. And so I went and spent time with them. And one of the first things they did was they sat me down in a chair, pointed a camera at me, and there was a television screen opposite me, and my face was on the screen.

special effects, to dubbing, to reshoots, animation, aging and de-aging, et cetera. And so I went and spent time with them. And one of the first things they did was they sat me down in a chair, pointed a camera at me, and there was a television screen opposite me, and my face was on the screen.

special effects, to dubbing, to reshoots, animation, aging and de-aging, et cetera. And so I went and spent time with them. And one of the first things they did was they sat me down in a chair, pointed a camera at me, and there was a television screen opposite me, and my face was on the screen.

And then the metaphysic guy clickety clacked a little bit on his keyboard, and suddenly my face had Tom Hanks's face sort of pasted on top of mine.

And then the metaphysic guy clickety clacked a little bit on his keyboard, and suddenly my face had Tom Hanks's face sort of pasted on top of mine.

And then the metaphysic guy clickety clacked a little bit on his keyboard, and suddenly my face had Tom Hanks's face sort of pasted on top of mine.

I could see my face. It was still me. And if I talked, it was moving. But I was also very recognizably Tom Hanks. You never know what you're going to get. The reason I was Tom Hanks is because the film project that Metaphysic was then working on was a movie called Here that starred Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. Hey, Dad. I'd like you to meet Margaret. Nice to meet you, Margaret.

I could see my face. It was still me. And if I talked, it was moving. But I was also very recognizably Tom Hanks. You never know what you're going to get. The reason I was Tom Hanks is because the film project that Metaphysic was then working on was a movie called Here that starred Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. Hey, Dad. I'd like you to meet Margaret. Nice to meet you, Margaret.