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?