Generating predictive videos using deep-learning

Living in a dynamic physical world, it's easy to forget how effortlessly we understand our surroundings. With minimal thought, we can figure out how scenes change and objects interact. But what's second nature for us is still a huge problem for machines. With the limitless number of ways that objects can move, teaching computers to predict future actions can be difficult. Recently, researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have gotten a step closer, developing a deep-learning algorithm that, given still images from a scene, can create brief videos that simulate the future of that scene.