AI, ML, Robots and Brains (4. - 10.5.2020)

Society

How many jobs do robots really replace?

An AI can simulate an economy millions of times to create fairer tax policy

Robots help some firms, even while workers across industries struggle

People think robots are pretty incompetent and not funny, new study says

Study finds stronger links between automation and inequality

The global AI agenda: North America

Algorithms

Identifying light sources using artificial intelligence

How speech recognition techniques are helping to predict volcanoes' behaviour

Computational imaging benefits from untrained neural network

An AI algorithm inspired by how kids learn is harder to confuse

Using AI to map marine environments

Health

Machine learning platform generates novel COVID-19 antibody sequences for experimental testing

Artificial intelligence algorithm can accurately predict risk, diagnose AD

AI tool speeds up search for COVID-19 treatments and vaccines

AI -- a new tool for cardiac diagnostics

Robots

Could hotel service robots help the hospitality industry after COVID-19?

Drones become even more insect-like

Pulse-driven robot: Motion via solitary waves

Inspired by cheetahs, researchers build fastest soft robots yet

To climb like a gecko, robots need toes

Cars

Car sharing minus the driver

Hardware

Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry -- new hardware could curb its appetite

Brains

How synaptic changes translate to behavior changes

From scaffolding to screens: Understanding the developing brain for reading

Similar brain glitch found in slips of signing, speaking

Extinguishing fearful memories depends on the flexibility of your DNA

Evidence that human brains replay our waking experiences while we sleep

From expressions to mind wandering: Using computers to illuminate human emotions

Left and right brain hemispheres found to store memories differently in ants

A role reversal for the function of certain circadian network neurons

See a 3D mouse brain with single-cell resolution

The feeling a limb doesn't belong is linked to lack of brain structure and connection

How does the brain link events to form a memory? Study reveals unexpected mental processes

To err is human, to learn, divine