Since the final episode of hit sitcom Friends first aired in 2004, many fans have clung to the hope of a reunion. Earlier this year, the show’s co-creator Marta Kauffman quashed that idea emphatically:“There will never be a Friends reunion movie,” she told E! A machine learning tool analyses the show’s script to understand how each character typically puts words together. The end result is a “virtually immortalized” version of Joey that can generate new sentences in his own style and voice with a mouth moving to speak these new words. Some of the algorithmically generated sentences Virtual Joey came up with include “Hey Ross do you want me to talk to some lady” and “I like pizza with cheese”.

Source: The Guardian October 20, 2016 21:18 UTC