AI, ML, Robots and Brains (20.7. - 26.7.2020)

Society

Workplace automation has sizeable negative impact on pay gap

An AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews

People are using artificial intelligence to help sort out their divorce. Would you?

Machine learning system can detect foreign social media influence campaigns using content alone

Algorithms

OpenAI’s new language generator GPT-3 is shockingly good—and completely mindless

Health

Artificial intelligence can help predict the bacteria responsible for pneumonia in emergency rooms

Proposed framework for integrating chatbots into health care

Machine learning reveals recipe for building artificial proteins

Robots

Which way to the fridge? Common sense helps robots navigate

Powerful human-like hands create safer human-robotics interactions

Is it a bird, a plane? Not superman, but a flapping wing drone

Cars

Tesla to release Autopilot lane changing on city streets soon

Software of autonomous driving systems

Hardware

Photon-based processing units enable more complex machine learning

Optimizing neural networks on a brain-inspired computer

Brains

Different from a computer: Why the brain never processes the same input in the same way
MRI scans of the brains of 130 mammals, including humans, indicate equal connectivity
Spider monkey groups as collective computers
Bird brain scientists find link between chicken behavior and epigenetics
Developing neural circuits linked to hunting behavior

Study helps to settle debate on roles of REM and non-REM sleep in visual learning

Researchers identify subject-specific component to perceptual learning ability

Scientists observe learning processes online in the brain

Visual working memory is hierarchically structured

Brain builds and uses maps of social networks, physical space, in the same way

Brain network mechanism causing spatial memory impairment revealed
A mechanical way to stimulate neurons

Music on the brain

Insight into toddlers' awareness of their own uncertainty

Two distinct circuits drive inhibition in the sensory thalamus of the brain

Big brains and dexterous hands