AI, ML, Robots and Brains (3.8. - 9.8.2020)

Society

'Deepfakes' ranked as most serious AI crime threat

AI is learning when it should and shouldn’t defer to a human

Whiteness of AI erases people of color from our 'imagined futures', researchers argue

The hack that could make face recognition think someone else is you

The pandemic has changed how criminals hide their cash—and AI tools are trying to sniff it out

Algorithms

Increasing generality in machine learning through procedural content generation

Machine learning methods provide new insights into organic-inorganic interfaces

Recovering data: NIST's neural network model finds small objects in dense images

Application of machine learning can optimize hurricane track forecast

Algorithm predicts the compositions of new materials

Machine learning research may help find new tungsten deposits in SW England

Health

AI and single-cell genomics: New software predicts cell fate

Deep learning on cell signaling networks establishes AI for single-cell biology
Algorithm created by deep learning finds potential therapeutic targets throughout genome
Machine learning makes drug repurposing for psychiatric disorders more effective

Russian developers created a platform for self-testing of AI medical services

Artificial intelligence-enhanced ECGs may speed heart failure diagnosis and treatment

AI may offer a better way to ID drug-resistant superbugs

Robots

Spot robot turns 'Fluffy' in new factory floor job

Cars

Will automated vehicles cut parking revenue?

Brains

Energy demands limit our brains' information processing capacity

Scientists discover cells that filter and sharpen spatial signals
Training neural circuits early in development improves response, study finds
UCI researchers publish new guide for viral tracers in neural circuit mapping
Humans and flies employ very similar mechanisms for brain development and function
Speech processing hierarchy in the dog brain

Key brain region was 'recycled' as humans developed the ability to read
Brain noise contains unique signature of dream sleep

An averted glance gives a glimpse of the mind behind the eyes