AI, ML, Robots and Brains (28.9. - 4.10.2020)

Society

Drugs aren't typically tested on women. AI could correct that bias

What is your attitude towards a humanoid robot? Your brain activity can tell us!

Artificial intelligence in art: a simple tool or creative genius?

A VR film/game with AI characters can be different every time you watch or play

AIOps uses AI, automation to boost security

Tool helps clear biases from computer vision

How AI will revolutionize manufacturing

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence can help protect orchids and other species

Automated image processing could aid crop evals

New artificial intelligence models show potential for predicting outcomes

Researchers exploit weaknesses of master game bots

Process for visualizing defects in crystal solids enhanced by artificial intelligence

AI technology can predict vanadium flow battery performance and cost

Machine learning homes in on catalyst interactions to accelerate materials development

AI taught to rapidly assess disaster damage so humans know where help is needed most

AI is helping scientists discover fresh craters on Mars

Health

Improving the quality of machine learning in health applications and clinical research

Harnessing big data and artificial intelligence to predict future pandemic spread

‘Sherlock Holmes’ AI diagnoses disease better than your doctor, study finds

AI can detect COVID-19 in the lungs like a virtual physician, new study shows

CNIC design an algorithm for personalized cardiovascular risk estimation in healthy people

AI predicts patients at highest risk for severe pain, increased opioid use post-surgery

Cannabis data lacking, but machine learning could help

VA Boston and BU researchers streamline PTSD diagnosis with machine learning

Computer model explains altered decision making in schizophrenia

Deep learning model provides rapid detection of stroke-causing blockages

Using machine learning to predict pediatric brain injury

AI learns to trace neuronal pathways

Semantic segmentation of microscopic neuroanatomical data by combining topological priors with encoder–decoder deep networks

How deep learning can advance study of neural degeneration

Robots

Machine-learning nanosats to inform global trade

Drone-based photogrammetry a new addition to geologic research services

Using drones to better predict urban flooding

The rise of the Covid robots – in pictures

Brains

Similarities and dissimilarities between automatic learning in bees and humans

Study shows how sun compass works in the brain of desert locust

Bird brains are surprisingly complex

Evolutionary and heritable axes shape our brain

Brain circuitry shaped by competition for space as well as genetics

How the brain balances emotion and reason

New method developed to help scientists understand how the brain processes color

'Social cells' related to social behavior identified in the brain

Social novelty has a special place in the brain

A revised map of where working memory resides in the brain

Gene links short-term memory to unexpected brain area

Tone of voice matters in neuronal communication

Nerve cells let others 'listen in'

Novel role of microglia as modulators of neurons in the brain is discovered

Recording thousands of nerve cell impulses at high resolution

Skoltech research makes it easier to pinpoint brain activity in EEG studies