When actress and technologist Eline Van der Velden sat down for a Deadline-moderated panel at the Zurich Summit in September, she never could have anticipated the intense global reaction that Tilly Norwood, the first AI-created actress from her fledgling AI talent studio Xicoia, would spark across the world.
The polished brunette AI creation with a girl-next-door feel had been soft launched to little fanfare over the summer and had a low key presence on social networks until then.
