AI learns to predict the future by watching 2 million videos

AN ARTIFICIAL intelligence system can predict how a scene will unfold and dream up a vision of the immediate future. Given a still image, the deep learning algorithm generates a mini video showing what could happen next. If it starts with a picture of a train station, it might imagine the train pulling away from the platform, for example. Or an image of a beach could inspire it to animate the motion of lapping waves. Teaching AI to anticipate the future can help it comprehend the present.