Researchers tout AI that can predict 25 video frames into the future

AI and machine learning algorithms are becoming increasingly good at predicting next actions in videos. The very best can anticipate fairly accurately where a baseball might travel after it's been pitched, or the appearance of a road miles from a starting position. To this end, a novel approach proposed by researchers at Google, the University of Michigan, and Adobe advances the state of the art with large-scale models that generate high-quality videos from only a few frames. All the more impressive, it does so without relying on techniques like optical flows (the pattern of apparent motion of objects, surfaces or edges in a scene) or landmarks, unlike previous methods. "In this work, we investigate whether we can achieve high quality video predictions … by just maximizing the capacity of a standard neural network," wrote the researchers in a preprint paper describing their work.