Computers Learn How Time Travels ~ 101feeds

A century ago, film comedian Charlie Chaplin was using movie trickery to convince viewers he had almost uncanny timing. In his short comedies, he’d catch a brick without seeing it or miss getting hit in the head by a hammer even though he had no idea it was hidden on the other side of a door

Decades later, historians discovered his trick: he would film some scenes in reverse: throwing the brick up and walking backwards through a doorway and then playing the scenes in the opposite direction — magic. The fact is, though we think we can always tell when a video is being played backwards, we can’t, but computers may be another story. Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are now teaching computers to use life’s little physical dynamic queues to tell the difference between video running forward and reverse. Read more...

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