Deepmind AI is good at lipreading like fictional Hal9000 from 2001

Artificial intelligence is getting its teeth into lip reading. A project by Google's DeepMind and the University of Oxford applied deep learning to a huge data set of BBC programmes to create a lip-reading system that leaves professionals in the dust. The AI system was trained using some 5000 hours from six different TV programmes, including Newsnight, BBC Breakfast and Question Time. In total, the videos contained 118,000 sentences. The AI vastly outperformed a professional lip-reader who attempted to decipher 200 randomly selected clips from the data set.