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Tom Hanks has raised the prospect of his career continuing after his death using artificial intelligence.
The Forrest Gump and Cast Away actor said the technology could be used to recreate his image, ensuring he continued to appear in movies “from now until kingdom come”.
But he admitted the developments posed artistic and legal challenges.
His remarks came as the Pet Shop Boys’ Neil Tennant said AI could be used by musicians to complete songs.
Hanks, 66, was asked about the legal ramifications of the new technology in the latest episode of The Adam Buxton podcast.
This has always been lingering,” he said. “The first time we did a movie that had a huge amount of our own data locked in a computer – literally what we looked like – was a movie called The Polar Express.
“We saw this coming, we saw that there was going to be this ability to take zeros and ones from inside a computer and turn it into a face and a character. That has only grown a billion-fold since then and we see it everywhere.”
The Polar Express, released in 2004, was the first film entirely animated…
