Artificial intelligence gets smarter at predicting what's coming next - SiliconANGLE

Large-scale data gathering and quantum leaps in processing power have set the table for major advancement in artificial intelligence. Yet there's a growing body of evidence that the field of AI is poised to move into a whole new dimension, one where AI not only imagines the real world, but can begin to make accurate decisions on what's real and important, what's not -- and thus predict what's coming next. "Computers are really good at memorization," Carl Vondrick, research scientist at Google Inc., said during a presentation at the Re-Work Deep Learning Summit in San Francisco Thursday. "The problem is teaching them how to forget." Vondrick's research has focused on one of the most vexing challenges in today's online world: how to make use of the massive database of unlabeled videos that clog nearly every corner of the web.