CGI is within three years of being able to create completely realistic “people.” That will be the end of TV and movie actors and reporters.
The backgrounds in the Spiderman movies, which were supposed to be a triumph of CGI, were not convincing - let alone the cartoonish CGI of the actors.
Bullhockey. I heard this same claim made circa 1995, that in the year 2000, CGI technology would have advanced to the point that actors could be replaced. It wasn't true then. It's not true now. We've made huge strides but the technology is nowhere near that threshold.
MM (in TX)
CGI is already making completely realistic people, check out the Final Fantasy movie. But it’s not the end of actors and reporters because it still takes a long time to program and render. If it ever gets to a point where it takes less than 1 hour to program and render 5 minutes worth of “acting” then actors will be gone, if it gets below half an hour reporters will be toast. But that’s a ways off, currently we’re still at days to weeks.
I didn't think much of it until the end when you realize that they've scanned her and can make her say anything and move the face in realistic ways. In 2-3 years you won't even know if the news people are real!
...and politicians.