Flipping or Turning? This Massive Database of Video Clips Will Help AIs Understand the Difference

Imagine if we had to explain all of the actions that take place on Earth to aliens. We could provide them with non-fiction books or BBC documentaries. We could try to explain verbally what twerking is. But, really, nothing conveys an action better than a three second video clip. Thanks to researchers at MIT and IBM, we now have a clearly labelled dataset of more than one million such clips.