AI, ML, Robots and Brains (25.3. - 31.3.2019)

Society

Canadian researchers who taught AI to learn like humans win $1M Turing Award

He Helped Create A.I. Now, He Worries About ‘Killer Robots.’

An AI startup has found a new source of cheap labor for training algorithms: prisoners

Tech companies must anticipate the looming risks as AI gets creative

How artificial intelligence is helping farmers and babies in the developing world

AI researchers must confront “missed opportunities” to achieve social good

Why AI researchers should reconsider protesting involvement in military projects

Google appoints an “AI council” to head off controversy, but it proves controversial

Who’s going to regulate AI? It might be you.

How malevolent machine learning could derail AI

Google's AI work in China spurs CEO sitdown with Pentagon brass

No AI in humor: R2-D2 walks into a bar, doesn’t get the joke

Artificial Intelligence v/s Humans: Why the Slave could soon become the Master

In 'Killer Robots' debate, Japan shuns fully automated arms

Deepfakes are solvable—but don’t forget that “shallowfakes” are already pervasive

The ethics of artificial intelligence: Teaching computers to be good people

Algorithms

Two new planets discovered using artificial intelligence

How machine learning is accelerating last-mile, and last-meter, delivery

A Neural Model to Learn Language Closer to How Humans Do

Team led by Stanford and MIT predicts the useful life of batteries with data and AI 

Machine learning reveals rapid material classification

Biophysicists use machine learning to understand, predict dynamics of worm behavior

Health

New drugs are too expensive. Can AI can fix that?

Artificial intelligence identifies key patterns from video footage of infant movements

What's in this plant? The best automated system for finding potential drugs

Artificial intelligence can predict premature death, study finds

Artificial intelligence can improve X-ray identification of pacemakers in emergencies

Hardware

The next AI explosion will be defined by the chips we build for it

A rubber computer eliminates the last hard components from soft robots

Robots

Watching Boston Dynamics’ new robot stack boxes is weirdly mesmerizing

A robot apple-picker is now harvesting fruit in New Zealand orchards

Robots won’t make it into our houses until they get common sense

Alexa needs a robot body to escape the confines of today's AI

Autonomous weed control via smart robots

Cars

How to make self-driving cars safer on roads

How Lumotive will put metamaterials in self-driving cars, with Bill Gates’ backing

New, more realistic simulator will improve self-driving vehicle safety before road testing

Stanford autonomous car learns to handle unknown conditions

Brains

Researchers discover the connection that enables bilateral visual coordination in mammals

Measurement of thoughts during knowledge acquisition

How the brain 'mentalizes' cooperation

Quick thinking? It's all down to timing

Sound sense: Brain 'listens' for distinctive features in sounds

Mind melding: Understanding the connected, social brain

People 'hear' flashes due to disinhibited flow of signals around the brain, suggests study

Untangling the brain's life-support network

'Free lunch' warps inner spatial map in rat brains and, by implication, human brains

Kids store 1.5 megabytes of information to master their native language