AI, ML, Robots and Brains (6. - 12.4.2020)

Society

You Can’t Spell Creative Without A.I.

Computers Already Learn From Us. But Can They Teach Themselves?

Learning about artificial intelligence: A hub of MIT resources for K-12 students

Want to Be Better at Sports? Listen to the Machines

Allen Institute reorganizes brain science division, with added focus on neural computation

Algorithms

Machine learning reveals new candidate materials for biocompatible electronics

AI system that predicts movement of glass molecules transitioning between liquid and solid states

Google’s auto-complete for speech can cover up glitches in video calls

Exploring the limit of using a deep neural network on pileup data for germline variant calling

Combining automated microfluidic experimentation with machine learning for efficient polymerization design

AI techniques used to improve battery health and safety

Robots

Thanks to 'flexoskeletons,' these insect-inspired robots are faster and cheaper to make

Army Designs New Camera Drones to Be Fired from Grenade Launchers

Police in Tunisia are using robots to patrol the streets to enforce a coronavirus lockdown — here's what they look like

'Pandemic drones' could single people out in a crowd for coughing, sneezing, or running a temperature, developers say — here's how they work

Drones in Africa: How they could become lifesavers

Cars

Tesla Full Self-Driving suite is poised for another price increase

Brains

Individual brain networks

The secret call of the wild: how animals teach each other to survive

Risk aversion as a survival strategy in ants

Exercise, exergy, and meateaters: Resolving the thermodynamic equilibrium of life

Aha! + Aaaah: Creative insight triggers a neural reward signal

It's now or never: Visual events have 100 milliseconds to hit brain target or go unnoticed

False memories of crime appear real when retold to others

How serotonin balances communication within the brain

Children have very precise expectations about adults' communicative actions

A study compares the parietal lobes in Neanderthals and modern humans

Innovative birds are less vulnerable to extinction

Changes in brain attention may underlie autism

Neuroscientists find memory cells that help us interpret new situations