Artificial Intelligence Predicts a Picture's Future

Given a still image, a new artificial intelligence system can generate videos that simulate the future of that scene to predict what might happen next. Currently, these videos are less than two seconds long and can make people look like blobs. But researchers hope that in the future, more powerful versions of this system could help robots navigate homes and offices and also lead to safer self-driving cars. Computers have grown steadily better at recognizing faces and other items within images. However, they still have major problems envisioning how the scenes they see might change, given the virtually limitless number of ways that items within images can interact.