AI, ML, Robots and Brains (15.6. - 21.6.2020)

Society

AI sentencing tools need to be closely scrutinized

Towards a new generation of artificial intelligence in China
Middle East and Africa - The global AI agenda

On social media, who's a bot? Who's not?

Brainsourcing automatically identifies human preferences
Finding a role for AI in the pandemic
Covid-19 could accelerate the robot takeover of human jobs

Podcast: Robots are the new recruits on the pandemic’s front lines

Don't fear the robots: Helping future workers learn how to innovate

Algorithms

Teaching physics to neural networks removes 'chaos blindness'
AI goes underground: root crop growth predicted with drone imagery

Artificial intelligence could revolutionize sea ice warnings

New connections between quantum computing and machine learning in computational chemistry

Machine learning qualitatively changes the search for new particles

Health

AI reduces 'communication gap' for nonverbal people by as much as half

Predicting tumour mutational burden from histopathological images using multiscale deep learning

Augmenting vascular disease diagnosis by vasculature-aware unsupervised learning

Artificial intelligence estimates peoples' ages

Open-source machine learning tool connects drug targets with adverse reactions

Robots

Robot vs. robot war? Now China has semi-autonomous fighting ground robots

'SlothBot in the Garden' demonstrates hyper-efficient conservation robot

Jitterbug: Roaches and robots shake it to transition between movements in tricky terrain

Cars

CMU method makes more data available for training self-driving cars

Tesla is removing Autopilot's green light confirmation in step towards inner-city Full Self-Driving

Tesla's controversial vision-based full self-driving approach is finally paying off

Hardware

The startup making deep learning possible without specialized hardware
Deep learning incorporating biologically inspired neural dynamics and in-memory computing
Stanford researchers develop artificial synapse that works with living cells

Modeling neuronal cultures on 'brain-on-a-chip' devices
Unique material design for brain-like computations

Nanomaterial gives robots chameleon skin

A deep-learned E-skin decodes complex human motion

Brains

What it means when animals have beliefs
Simulated sea slug gets addicted to drug
Humans found able to infer behavioral information from chimpanzee vocalizations
'Philosophy lab test' finds objective vision impossible

Neurons can shift how they process information about motion

How does our brain trigger different sighs? New findings could provide answers

Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors reveals the coding logic of olfactory perception

The first model proposed to simulate the functioning of concept cells in the brain

Previously undetected brain pulses may help circuits survive disuse, injury

A new study on rare 'split brain' patients sheds light on feature of human sleep