With a dash of AI video tech anybody can dance like Bruno Mars

The idea is to transfer motion between human subjects.

A recent trend to appear on the internet is ‘deepfake' – deep learning technology used to superimpose existing images or video onto other sources. This type of AI can be used to make politicians look as though they're saying something completely different or it could make someone with two left feet appear to dance like Beyonce.

“Everybody Dance Now” is the title of the paper by researchers at University of California Berkeley, who are using their AI framework to give untrained amateurs the chance to “to spin and twirl like ballerinas, perform martial arts kicks or dance as vibrantly as pop stars.”