MIT Develops A.I. That Can Predict Seconds Into the Future

A superhero who was able to see two seconds into the future wouldn't be invincible, but she'd have a leg up on mere mortals. On Monday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced its new artificial intelligence, and it's a prototype of such a being. Based on a photograph alone, it can predict what'll happen next, then spit out a one-and-a-half second video clip depicting that possible future. The breakthrough could yield smarter autonomous cars or security systems. MIT researchers trained the A.I. by feeding over two million videos into its two-pronged deep-learning system.