New Computer Program Can Predict How Things Will Move, Just Like Us
Tuesday, January 5, 2016 - 10:20
in Mathematics & Economics
MIT CSAIL One of these things is not like the other An experimental setup used to train a computer to understand basic physics. To some extent, we humans are pretty good at predicting the future. Not the big stuff of course, but small things, like how something will move under different forces and conditions. Now, researchers are trying to give computers that same ability. Let's say you have a heavy block and a rubber ball sitting at the top of a steep ramp, with you holding each one in place. What happens if you just let go (no pushing allowed)? We can predict that if you let go of the block, it's probably not going to move down the hill as fast as the ball, if it...