The Mannequin Challenge Trained an AI
Bilawal Sidhu · May 21, 2026 · 19,934 views · 815 likes · 14 comments on YouTube
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The 2016 mannequin challenge was a perfect training set hiding in plain sight -- people frozen, camera moving, humans embedded. UW researchers scraped 2,000 videos off YouTube and trained the first depth model that actually worked on moving people. #MachineLearning #DepthEstimat
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