MIT AI system predicts when people will kiss, hug, or shake hands

Humans--most of us, at least--are pretty good at judging what's about to happen when we see two people approach each other. Why Dick's Sporting Goods decided to play its own game in ecommerce Dick's Sporting Goods has long partnered with eBay Enterprise on its e-commerce platform. Learn the benefits and risks of this multi-million dollar IT bet. According to a paper released on Tuesday by MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), its deep learning AI system can accurately predict human interactions. The AI that MIT developed, which will be presented at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), was able to correctly decide, after just one second of a scene, whether two people would hug, kiss, shake hands, or high-five.