I was caught off-guard today. That rarely happens, and when it does, at my age, it’s pretty awesome. I had seen in a video an AI application called Hey Gen and the video avatar that was demonstrated in the video was pretty impressive. Now, this isn’t my first attempt to acquire an AI avatar, and in light of the fact that the one I paid $25 for a few short weeks ago had a third arm (we’ll talk about some of the challenges of AI image generation in another post), my expectations were not super high. What Hey Gen delivered for free blew me away. In fact, when I sent the demonstration video to my family, all conceded that had I not revealed that the video was AI, and was neither me, nor my voice, they were speechless.