--- title: "Google Scientists Create AI That Can Generate Videos From One Frame" description: "Google's DeepMind neural network has demonstrated that it can create short videos from a single image frame with its new AI, Transframer." date: "2022-08-17" modified: "2022-08-17" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-deepmind-video-single-frame" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Google" tags: - "DeepMind" - "generative design" - "Google" - "image generator" - "the digest" --- # Google Scientists Create AI That Can Generate Videos From One Frame ![Google's DeepMind neural network has demonstrated that it can create short videos from a single image frame with its new AI, Transframer.]() *\Image: Nash et al.\* ## Spin Doctors Google's DeepMind neural network has demonstrated that it can dream up short videos from a single image frame, and it's *really* cool to see how it works. As [DeepMind noted on Twitter](), the artificial intelligence model, named "Transframer" — that's a riff on a "transformer," a [common type of AI tool]() that whips up text based on partial prompts — "excels in video prediction and view synthesis," and is able to "generate 30 \[second\] videos from a single image." https://twitter.com/DeepMind/status/1559178172280840196 ## Guessing Game As the [Transframer website]() notes, the AI makes its perspective videos by predicting the target images' surroundings with "context images" — in short, by correctly guessing what one of the chairs below would look like from different perspectives based on extensive training data that lets it "imagine" an actual object from another angle. This model is especially impressive because it appears to be able to apply artificial depth perception and perspective to generate what the image would look like if someone were to "move" around it, raising the possibility of entire video games based on machine learning tech instead of traditional rendering. More food for thought: one [Twitter user]() has already said that he plans to use Transframer in conjunction with outputs from [OpenAI's DALL-E]() image generating algorithm — a very cool example of the kind of AI-on-AI action we'll likely be seeing a lot more of in the years to come. ![]() GIF via DeepMind **READ MORE:** [Transframer: Arbitrary Frame Prediction with Generative Models]() \[arXiv\] **More on generative algos:** [*The Creator of That Viral Image Generating AI Loves All Your Weird Creations*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()