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