AI, ML, Robots and Brains (25.5. - 31.5.2020)

Society

How do you motivate workers who are managed by an algorithm?

The global AI agenda: Europe

Algorithms

Finding key players in complex networks through deep reinforcement learning

Artificial intelligence reveals mechanism for kin selection in a wild primate

AI identifies change in microstructure in aging materials

Core progress in AI has stalled in some fields

Health

Finding unique drug structures with artificial intelligence and chemistry

Computer vision and uncertainty in AI for robotic prosthetics

Researchers incorporate computer vision and uncertainty into AI for robotic prosthetics

AI could help scientists fact-check covid claims amid a deluge of research

Robots

Robo farm: AI machine 'DOT' comes to an Ontario farm for the first time

How drones can monitor explosive volcanoes

Observations of robotic swarm behavior can help workers safely navigate disaster sites

In pandemic, using drones to drop medical supplies from sky

Researchers use drones, machine learning to detect dangerous 'butterfly' landmines

Autonomous robot chef moves into the kitchen, powered by AI

Cars

Tesla owner crashes head-on with tree, wishes Autopilot was on

Tesla Autopilot impresses in 79-minute 'Torture Test' through long winding roads

Hardware

The concept of creating «brain-on-chip» revealed
Performing optical logic operations by a diffractive neural network

Brains

Similar to humans, chimpanzees develop slowly

Termite fishing techniques in wild chimpanzees show some elements of cultural diversity
Chimpanzees help trace the evolution of human speech back to ancient ancestors
New research on 'endowment effect' points to evolutionary roots of cognitive biases
Wild cockatoos are just as smart as lab-raised ones

Musical rhythm has very deep evolutionary roots and is present in some animals

What information is coded in bird alarm calls—a new study from Korea

Revealing how flies make decisions on the fly to survive
'Single pixel' vision in fish helps scientists understand how humans can spot tiny details
Unique insight into development of the human brain: Model of the early embryonic brain
New method provides unique insight into the development of the human brain

Schizophrenia: When the thalamus misleads the ear

'Knowing how' is in your brain

How do we disconnect from the environment during sleep and under anesthesia?

Where does stress live in the brain? Scientists may have the answer