Video-game engines are speeding up the way visual effects are being rendered, letting actors experience the results in real time.

While AI isn't quite ready for prime time, the technology has the potential to make Hollywood VFX artists more creative. It could also come for jobs.

Netflix says it has used visual effects created by generative artificial intelligence (AI) in one of its original TV shows for the first time. The streaming giant's co-chief executive Ted Sarandos ...