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As this article (with accompanying 5-minute video) notes, a "new paper by Samsung's Moscow-based researchers, however, shows that using only a single image of a person's face, a video can be generated of that face turning, speaking and making ordinary expressions — with convincing, though far from flawless, fidelity." So, for example, we can have (relatively convincing) video of the Mona Lisa having an animated conversation. Maybe she could be an art teacher.

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