AI, ML, Robots and Brains (8.6. - 14.6.2020)

Society

The global AI agenda: Latin America

IBM exits facial recognition business, calls for police reform

Microsoft joins Amazon, IBM in pausing face scans for police
Clearview AI facial recognition offers to delete some faces — but not in Canada
The two-year fight to stop Amazon from selling face recognition to the police

AI sentencing tools need to be closely scrutinised, says new study

Facebook just released a database of 100,000 deepfakes to teach AI how to spot them
For university classrooms, are telepresence robots the next best thing to being there?

Algorithms

Army researchers enhance communications for multi-agent teaming

Speeding up coral reef conservation with AI-aided automated image analysis

Machine learning predicts nanoparticle structure and dynamics

Author Correction: Predicting the state of charge and health of batteries using data-driven machine learning

Researchers use machine learning to aid oil production

Skoltech researchers use machine learning to aid oil production

Artificial intelligence makes blurry faces look more than 60 times sharper

What maritime shipping can learn from brain network science

Health

Secure, privacy-preserving and federated machine learning in medical imaging

A novel machine learning framework for automated biomedical relation extraction from large-scale literature repositories

Scientists use machine learning to predict major clinical forms of drug cardiotoxicity

New machine learning model predicts which base editor performs best to repair thousands of disease-causing mutations
New algorithm uses artificial intelligence to help manage type 1 diabetes
Artificial intelligence enhances brain tumor diagnosis
ModGraProDep: Artificial intelligence and probabilistic modelling in clinical oncology

Robots

New control technique could improve accuracy of industrial robots

Army Close to Awarding New Contract for Robotic Mule to Carry Gear for Grunts

A robot to track and film flying insects

Cars

Tesla Robotaxi takes a step forward with latest "Car Access" feature

Self-driving cars that recognize free space can better detect objects

Hardware

Rice engineers offer smart, timely ideas for AI bottlenecks
Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip

Artificial brains may need sleep too

Circular reasoning: Spiraling circuits for more efficient AI

Brains

Monkeys appreciate lifelike animation
Inhibitory interneurons in hippocampus excite the developing brain
Infants have a basic knowledge of the role and limitations of language

Some infants can identify differences in musical tones at six months

Forgot where you parked the car? Research suggests memory is a game of all or nothing

Memory consolidation during REM sleep: Researchers identify neurons responsible for memory consolidation during REM sleep
The brain uses minimum effort to look for key information in text
Alzheimer research: Noise-inducing neurons shut down memories
Neuroscientists discover neural circuits that control hibernation-like behaviors in mice

Night owls have more grey matter in their brains than early birds

Noise disturbs the brain's compass

Discovering how the brain works through computation

How the brain controls our speech

Our visual world of color is largely incorrect, study finds