AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has a movie coming out. Spare us this future | Dave Schilling

Acting is about human connection across cultural and social divides. But we can’t expect much of that in the ‘Tillyverse’ Rejoice, cinema lovers. Tilly Norwood is back! Not familiar? I don’t blame you, as she’s not exactly a household name yet – though a fleet of well-fed publicists is certainly trying to rectify that. Tilly Norwood is an “AI actor”, as in, an actor that’s not actually an actor at all. Just a series of digital blobs and lines of code designed to resemble a young woman in the ...

By Dave Schilling