MIT AI tries to eliminate buffering when streaming videos

Engadget reports that MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a solution for buffering that could put an end to the loading icons and progress bars. It tasked a neural network with trying to solve one of the biggest challenges when developing conventional buffering systems. "Buffering" refers to the chunk-based streaming of large files over a network. When you play a video, it's effectively chopped into sections that are downloaded individually of each other. You can start watching the video without having to download the entire thing first.