AI edges closer to understanding 3D space the way we do

If I show you a single picture of a room, you can tell me right away that there's a table with a chair in front of it, they're probably about the same size, about this far from each other, with the walls this far away — enough to draw a rough map of the room. Computer vision systems don't have this intuitive understanding of space, but the latest research from DeepMind brings them closer than ever before.