A new artificial intelligence system can take still images and generate short videos that
simulate what happens next similar to how humans can visually imagine how a scene will evolve, according to a new study.
Humans intuitively understand how the world works, which makes it easier for people, as opposed to machines, to envision how a scene will play out. But objects in a still image could move and interact in a multitude of different ways, making it very hard for machines to accomplish this feat, the researchers said. But a new, so-called deep-learning system was able to trick humans 20 per cent of the time when compared to real footage.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) pitted two neural networks against each other, with one trying to distinguish real videos from machine-generated ones, and the other trying to create videos that were realistic enough to trick the first system. [Super-Intelligent Machines: 7 Robotic Futures] https://www.livescience.com/57160-artificial-intelligence-predicts-how-scenes-evolve.html
