AI, ML, Robots and Brains (20.9. - 27.9.2020)

Society

When bots do the negotiating, humans more likely to engage in deceptive techniques

We’re not ready for AI, says the winner of a new $1m AI prize

How close is AI to decoding our emotions?

Algorithms

OpenAI is giving Microsoft exclusive access to its GPT-3 language model

Engineers pre-train AI computers to make them even more powerful

Facebook wants to make AI better by asking people to break it

A computer predicts your thoughts, creating images based on them

These weird, unsettling photos show that AI is getting smarter

Artificial intelligence and machine learning could enhance scientific peer review, researchers say

Researchers hone computer models to identify animals in photos

Active learning accelerates redox-flow battery discovery

Talking alone: Researchers use artificial intelligence tools to predict loneliness

Provably exact artificial intelligence for nuclear and particle physics

The use of graph neural networks to discover particles

AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities

Health

Machine learning models identify kids at risk of lead poisoning: Proactive approach focuses limited health resources where most needed

Machine learning takes on synthetic biology: algorithms can bioengineer cells for you

Artificial intelligence system developed to help better select embryos for implantation: System trained to detect highest quality in-vitro fertilization embryos outperformed trained embryologists

Researchers demonstrate how deep learning can advance study of neural degeneration

AI could expand healing with bioscaffolds

Next-gen bioinformatics tool enables big data analysis without programming expertise

Buzzworthy AI: Microsoft expands its Premonition mosquito-tracking outbreak prediction system

Deep learning helps explore the structural and strategic bases of autism?

Artificial intelligence detects osteoarthritis years before it develops

Robots

Soft robots, origami combine for potential way to deliver medical treatments

Teaching offshore robots to speak our language

Ring's new tiny drone can autonomously fly around your home and send alerts if it detects intruders, fire, or emergencies while you're away

Cars

Why people might never use autonomous cars

Hardware

New brain cell-like nanodevices work together to identify mutations in viruses

Brains

A link between sensory neurons activation and the immune system

The overlap between fear and anxiety brain circuits

Twinkling, star-shaped brain cells may hold the key to why, how we sleep

Nerve cells let others "listen in"

Bird brains' cortex-like structure may be behind complex cognition, and even consciousness

Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time

Primate brain size does not predict their intelligence