Here’s why we’re about to see an explosion of hyper-real artificial humans online

Synthetically generated versions of real people which can be can be programmed to say anything sounds like a scenario from the latest episode of Black Mirror.
But in fact, production-grade video-based characters based on real people – which can talk about any product or subject at all, in a hyper-life-like manner – are arguably going to be part of the next wave in areas like e-commerce and remote learning. Further, a Hollywood celebrity could simply license out their avatar to explai