AI, ML, Robots and Brains (13.7. - 19.7.2020)

Society

How a Colombian market is using AI to combat Covid-19 outbreaks

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive

AI upscales Apollo lunar footage to 60 FPS

A concept in psychology is helping AI to better navigate our world

New learning algorithm should significantly expand the possible applications of AI

Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.

Using neural-network soundscapes to protect natural environments

Skoltech scientists use ML to optimize hydraulic fracturing design for oil wells

250,000 tonnes of shipping CO2 emissions saved thanks to machine learning insight

OpenAI’s fiction-spewing AI is learning to generate images

Machine learning accurately predicts who's who in the health care workforce

AI model to forecast complicated large-scale tropical instability waves in Pacific Ocean

Actor neural networks for the robust control of partially measured nonlinear systems showcased for image propagation through diffuse media

Health

A new Rx: AI for operations in health care

Robots

Transparent, reflective objects now within grasp of robots

"Alexa, go to the kitchen and fetch me a snack"

Wireless aquatic robot could clean water and transport cells

Drones and artificial intelligence show promise for conservation of farmland bird nests

Hardware

Nanoelectronics learn the same way as the human brain

Scientists identify new material with potential for brain-like computing

Artificial 'neurotransistor' created: Imitating the functioning of neurons using semiconductor materials

Giving robots human-like perception of their physical environments

New artificial skin will allow robots to detect touch and textures

Cars

Tech to help autonomous vehicles better scan for nearby fast-moving objects

Brains

This parrot beat 21 Harvard students in a classic memory game

Researcher develops method for mapping brain cell change, development in mice

How to map brain connections using DNA barcodes

A brainwide atlas of synapses across the mouse life span

Why are memories attached to emotions so strong?

Study shows how our brains remain active during familiar, repetitive tasks

Neuronal circuits in the brain 'sense' our inner state

Paper: Mundane behavioral decisions, actions can be 'misremembered' as done

IT links (13.7. - 19.7.2020)

One of the SOLID principles - interface segregation

How to log GC actions into a file?

Creating landing pages with GitHub pages

And how to keep your resources safe if you have already static web site based on S3

Vue vs. React vs. Angular

And comparing AWS and Microsoft Azure

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (6.7. - 12.7.2020)

Society

Canadians can now opt out of Clearview AI facial recognition, with a catch

How some businesses are using AI to make sure customers are wearing masks
Context reduces racial bias in hate speech detection algorithms

Beyond the AI hype cycle: Trust and the future of AI
Empathy machines: what will happen when robots learn to write film scripts?

Algorithms

Machine learning reveals vulnerabilities in 3D-printed carbon-fiber composites

Breakthrough machine learning approach quickly produces higher-resolution climate data

Deep learning decodes the principles of differential gene expression

Deep learning enables early detection and classification of live bacteria using holography

Learning more about particle collisions with machine learning
A new way to train AI systems could keep them safer from hackers

AI enables efficiencies in quantum information processing

Scientists introduce new method for machine learning classifications in quantum computing
Quantum approximate Bayesian computation for NMR model inference

Health

Algorithm predicts risk for PTSD after traumatic injury

Machine learning helps grow artificial organs

Robots

Researchers build robot scientist that has already discovered a new catalyst

This MIT robot combats COVID-19 and may soon be in your grocery store

Tyson Foods is ramping up development of robots that can cut meat in response to coronavirus outbreaks in meatpacking plants

Heat-detecting drones are a cheaper, more efficient way to find koalas

Cars

What ethical models for autonomous vehicles don't address - and how they could be better

Tesla's Neural Network adaptability to hardware highlighted in new patent application

Elon Musk predicts Tesla will complete the 'basic functionality' needed for fully autonomous driving this year — 4 years after the company started selling 'full self driving' software

Tesla owner’s dog goes on hilarious Autopilot joy ride

Brains

Fishing for a theory of emergent behavior
Bright feathers, bright brains: hummingbirds 'can order numerically'
Like humans, beluga whales form social networks beyond family ties
Animals who try to sound 'bigger' are good at learning sounds
Cognitive map–based navigation in wild bats revealed by a new high-throughput tracking system
The human brain: not just large but finely shaped
New connection between the eyes and touch discovered
Critical early step of the visual process uncovered
More than meets the eye
Is what I see, what I imagine? Study finds neural overlap between vision and imagination
Research advances understanding of how the brain focuses while ignoring distractions

IT links (6.7. - 12.7.2020)

Reminding: Liskov substitution principle

Which Lombok annotations to avoid when you are using the framework with Hibernate entities?  

AWS: You can create a snapshot from any block storage now

Small, but interesting differences in the behavior of MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Hive for the same SQL syntax

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (29.6. - 5.7.2020)

Society

Why it is time to stop ostracizing social robots

New mathematical idea reins in AI bias towards making unethical and costly commercial choices

Algorithms

Team dramatically reduces image analysis times using deep learning, other approaches

Research reflects how AI sees through the looking glass

Health

Artificial intelligence identifies, locates seizures in real-time

Artificial intelligence brings pancreatic cancer screening one step closer to reality

Human-Artificial intelligence collaborations best for skin cancer diagnosis

Robots

Coordinating complex behaviors between hundreds of robots

Jellyfish-inspired soft robots can outswim their natural counterparts

Brains

NIH study finds out why some words may be more memorable than others
Auditory hallucinations rooted in aberrant brain connectivity
Sniffing out smell: How the brain organizes information about odors
Brain activity prior to an action contributes to our sense of control over what we do
Researchers discover algorithms and neural circuit mechanisms of escape responses
From age 8 we spontaneously link vocal to facial emotion
New genomic atlas of the developing human brain

IT links (29.6. - 5.7.2020)

Java map to JSON mapping with JPA and Hibernate
Spring: Inject a map from a YAML file

Amazon RDS Proxy and Amazon CodeGuru are generally available now

EvoFlow: an alternative to Airflow

Angular 10 was released

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (22.6. - 28.6.2020)

Society

Facial recognition to 'predict criminals' sparks row over AI bias

He was arrested because of a computer error. Now he wants to fix the system

Trump’s freeze on new visas could threaten US dominance in AI

Human rights activists want to use AI to help prove war crimes in court

AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms

Artificial intelligence in a crisis needs ethics with urgency

If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics

Algorithms

Baidu’s PaddlePaddle deep-learning platform fuels the rise of industrial AI

University students develop AI to detect fast radio bursts

Machine learning has a flaw; it's gullible

AI could help improve performance of lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells

Computational model decodes speech by predicting it

Health

A furry social robot can reduce pain and increase happiness -- Ben-Gurion University researchers

Towards an AI diagnosis like the doctor's

Artificial intelligence classifies colorectal cancer using IR imaging

AI dual-stain approach improved accuracy, efficiency of cervical cancer screening

Side effects of testicular cancer predicted by machine learning

Robots

'Robotic soft matter' bends, rotates and crawls when hit with light

Could drones deliver packages more efficiently by hopping on the bus?

Deep drone acrobatics

Automated laser-scanning 'hunter drone' seeks out fossils, minerals and biological targets

Boston Dynamics' $75,000 Spot robot dog will soon come with an arm and 'someday' be available for household uses like folding laundry

Cars

Tesla's Elon Musk approves use of cross-traffic warnings when backing up

Tesla Autopilot smoothly identifies and slows down for pedestrian in impressive video

First Look at Tesla Autopilot's green light confirmation removal

Amazon looks to self-driving future by acquiring tech company Zoox

Tesla Autopilot makes automatic lane change to avoid construction zone

Making more data available for training self-driving cars: Additional data boosts accuracy of tracking other cars, pedestrians

Hardware

Ion conducting polymer crucial to improving neuromorphic devices

Brains

UTEP researchers uncover brain mechanisms in fruit flies that may impact future learning

Tiny brains, big surprise: Eavesdropping wasps gain insights about fighting abilities of potential rivals

Shelling out for dinner: Dolphins learn foraging skills from peers

New tools will enhance the specificity of imaging in the mouse brain

A focused approach to imaging neural activity in the brain

Adult-born neurons grow more than their infancy-born counterparts

Scientists discover cellular structure of poorly understood visual brain region

The human brain tracks speech more closely in time than other sounds

Humans navigate with stereo olfaction

'Where are my keys?' and other memory-based choices probed in the brain

New study examines recursive thinking

Being 'mind-blind' may make remembering, dreaming and imagining harder, study finds

Faulty brain processing of new information underlies psychotic delusions, finds new research

IT links (22.6. - 28.6.2020)

Another mini-book about Java, now about innovations that are on the way

How to test controller exceptions? With MockMvc

Easy containerization of Spring Boot apps with Buildpacks

13 best JavaScript frameworks of this year

And something about older systems:

Seven Legacy Integration Patterns

and 

How to tell if your database is controlling your application?

What software engineers can bring to the machine learning process?

And Facebook has announced TransCoder - transpiler using unsupervised deep learning to transform code from one programming language to another

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