i'm in los angeles to meet hao li, his company pinscreen is giving ai a human face. they're developing cutting edge techniques to create hyper realistic dital avatars in an stant. - one of the hardest things to bring to the virtual world are humans, right? - yeah (giggles). - and specifically faces. - [shivani] to create believable faces, hao is relying on complex ai algorithms. - it's an artificial intelligence that actually digitizes yourself into the computer by just looking a single image or partial information. and it's not just a 3d model, static one, but it's one that can also be animated and brought to life. - [shivani] other methods of generating life-like avatars need to capture multiple gles of a face in motion and they can take hours to render, but not pin screens technology. - [hao] i can show you real quick how this works. do you wanna see? - [shivani] yeah. incredibly, his software also allows him to superimpose any face he wants in real time. - so if i do this, this blue face is basically a face tractor. so ireal time it's actually modeling my face in