DeepMind’s AI can ‘imagine’ a world based on a single picture
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2171675-deepminds-ai-can-imagine-a-world-based-on-a-single-picture/
The system, called the Generative Query Network (GQN), can tease out details from the static images to guess at spatial relationships, including the camera’s position.
“Imagine you’re looking at Mt. Everest, and you move a metre – the mountain doesn’t change size, which tells you something about its distance from you,”says Ali Eslami who led the project at Deepmind.