New Delhi, March 15 -- Keerthik Sasidharan, the author of The Dharma Forest, put up animations of freedom fighters and historical figures like Bhagat Singh, Swami Vivekananda, Lokmanya Tilak, Kasturba Gandhi, Aurobindo and Munshi Premchand. The GIFs, created from their photos, started moving once you hit the play button and they look exceptionally real. He said that he ran the images through a technology called the 'Heritage AI algorithm' and reanimated them.

For those unaware, the videos had a very real-life like quality in them. The historical figures moved, blinked and smiled - leaving netizens amused, all in praises for the "amazing technology". According to reports, the software comes from the online family tree service MyHeritage. ...