AI, ML, Robots and Brains (16. - 22.9.2019)

Society

Study: Americans would rather drive themselves than have an autonomous vehicle drive them

New algorithm can distinguish cyberbullies from normal Twitter users with 90% accuracy

Deepfakes could anonymize people in videos while keeping their personality

CBC's chat bot helps you spot 'fake news' — and avoid spreading it

The world’s top deepfake artist: ‘Wow, this is developing more rapidly than I thought.’

A facial recognition ban is coming to the US, says an AI policy advisor

India Is Planning a Huge China-Style Facial Recognition Program

The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding

‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?

Algorithms

Unsupervised data to content transformation with histogram-matching cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks

ARIEL exoplanet mission celebrates machine learning challenge and citizen science launch

AI learned to use tools after nearly 500 million games of hide and seek

AI-guided robotics enable automation of complex synthetic biological molecules

Team uses machine learning to help tell which wildfires will burn out of control

Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe

AI helps reduce Amazon hydropower dams' carbon footprint

Facial recognition algorithms can be deployed to hunt for dark matter

This Picasso painting had never been seen before. Until a neural network painted it

Deep learning application able to predict El Niño events up to 18 months in advance

Health

Deep learning optoacoustic tomography with sparse data

Robots

Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves

Look out, invasive species: The robots are coming

Shape-shifting robot built from 'smarticles' shows new locomotion strategy

UVA engineering-led team unveils 'Tunabot,' first robotic fish to keep pace with a tuna

Drone delivers shark warning to surfer

Cars

Tesla to support in-car Autopilot video tutorials in Version 10 software update

Tesla "Smart" Summon will be available on older Model S and Model X with Hardware 2.0

Brains

The sleep neuron in threadworms is also a stop neuron

Brain may not need body movements to learn virtual spaces

Brain-computer interfaces without the mess

Learning to read boosts the visual brain

The brain may actively forget during dream sleep

REM sleep–active MCH neurons are involved in forgetting hippocampus-dependent memories

Neurological signals from the spinal cord surprise scientists

Study finds hub linking movement and motivation in the brain

Evolution of learning is key to better artificial intelligence

Why is the brain disturbed by harsh sounds?

Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain Forget

Hub linking movement and motivation in brain identified

Are brain implants the future of thinking?

IT links (16. - 22.9.2019)

Three articles related to new JDK 13:

• Definitive Guide To Java 13
• What is new in Java 13
• 81 New Features and APIs in JDK 13

Changing Spring Boot app during runtime:

• How to Reload Changes Without Restarting the Server?
• Changing the Logging Level at the Runtime

Tests:

• Good summary - 22 Reasons Why Test Automation Fails For Your Web Application
• Decreased code coverage - always problem?

And two more articles:

• AWS EC2 Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs
• Replacing jQuery with VueJS

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (9. - 15.9.2019)

Society

'Neural revolution': Royal Society calls for inquiry into new wave of brain implants

Kids are surrounded by AI. They should know how it works

China and the U.S Are Fighting a Major Battle Over Killer Robots and the Future of AI

Algorithms

Artificial Intelligence speeds up photodynamics simulations

Chemists show how bias can crop up in machine learning algorithm results

Using machine learning for rewilding

'The Alexa of chemistry': Researchers on fast track to build open network

Health

Next-gen Siri may be able to have ‘back and forth’ conversations about health issues

AI neural network detects heart failure from single heartbeat

Machine learning improves the diagnosis of patients with head and neck cancers

Predicting risk of heart failure for diabetes patients with help from machine learning

Robots

'Flying fish' robot can propel itself out of water and glide through the air

Soft-bodied swimming robot uses only light for power and steering

Meet Rudy, the high-wire robot that could be N.L.'s next big invention

Nerve-like 'optical lace' gives robots a human touch

A robot with a firm yet gentle grasp

Cars

Robocar challenges Tesla to race after Model S sets record at Laguna Seca

Hardware

In situ training of feed-forward and recurrent convolutional memristor networks

Introducing quantum convolutional neural networks

Benchmarks for progress in neuromorphic computing

Fully portable and wireless universal brain–machine interfaces enabled by flexible scalp electronics and deep learning algorithm

First Earth observation satellite with AI ready for launch

Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way

Brains

Sound-shape associations depend on early visual experiences

Watching music move through the brain

How brain rhythms organize our visual perception

Studying vision in pitch-darkness shines light on how a mammal's brain drives behavior

The birth of vision, from the retina to the brain

Study shows bee brains process positive and negative experiences differently

New study points to universal code in our brains for what we find beautiful

Discovery concerning the nervous system overturns a previous theory

New insights into how astrocytes help the brain process information

IT links (9. - 15.9.2019)

With release of JDK 13, work on JDK 14 has started

September AWS Online Tech Talks with three webinars related to machine learning

Brief overview of Java frameworks and libraries for testing, containing also help more complex checks

Moving legacy Spring app to run under Spring Boot

@SpringBootConfiguration annotation

Good reminder of SOLID principles

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (2. - 8.9.2019)

Society

Automated text analysis: The next frontier of marketing innovation

An AI app that turns you into a movie star has risked the privacy of millions

Emotion-reading algorithms cannot predict intentions via facial expressions

Facebook is making its own AI deepfakes to head off a disinformation disaster

White House lists security tech, AI and space among R&D priorities

The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines

Criminal artificial intelligence may be coming for your money: Don Pittis

Why should you care about AI used for hiring?

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence used to recognize primate faces in the wild

Artificial intelligence helps to predict hybrid nanoparticle structures

Boltzmann generators: Sampling equilibrium states of many-body systems with deep learning

Scientists develop a deep learning method to solve a fundamental problem in statistical physics

Novel math could bring machine learning to the next level

Health

AI learns complex gene-disease patterns

AI learns the language of chemistry to predict how to make medicines

A breakthrough in imaginative AI with experimental validation to accelerate drug discovery

New AI technology for advanced heart attack prediction

An AI system identified a potential new drug in just 46 days

Ageing research to accelerate with experimental validation in AI-powered drug discovery

Cars

Video of Tesla in full self-driving mode gives us a glimpse into the future of travel

Brains

The brain processes words placed on the right side of a screen more quickly

Discovery of neuronal ensemble activities that is orchestrated to represent one memory

How the limits of the mind shape human language

How humans have shaped dogs' brains

How our brain filters sounds

How do we get so many different types of neurons in our brain?

Seeing memories being made

IT links (2. - 8.9.2019)

At the beginning - just reminder - JDK 13 will come in couple of days and here is a short list of  new features

Java copy constructor vs clone

Price of AWS EFS for infrequent access was reduced

And another players in the world of cloud providers

17 tips for writing effective test cases

And what are the most important types of logs to write?