MIT researchers use TV to train computers to predict human behavior

There's a lot that artificial intelligence can do, but understanding human behavior isn't one of the strong suits. A team at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory wants to change that. Researchers essentially turned computers into couch potatoes by feeding them hundreds of hours of footage from popular TV shows like "The Office," "Scrubs," and "Desperate Housewives," NPR reported Tuesday. Each clip ends with one of four actions: a hug, a kiss, a high five, or a handshake. Predict which one is about to happen.