AI, ML, Robots and Brains (19.10. - 25.10.2020)

Society

Machines to 'do half of all work tasks by 2025'

The true dangers of AI are closer than we think

It’s time to rethink the legal treatment of robots

AI has exacerbated racial bias in housing. Could it help eliminate it instead?

Algorithms

Researchers develop machine learning model that will support safe and accurate decision making for the Halifax Harbour

AI detects hidden earthquakes

Artificial intelligence reveals hundreds of millions of trees in the Sahara

Researchers at the forefront of developing machine learning methods for chemical discovery

AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find 'new Earths'

A machine-learning algorithm that can infer the direction of the thermodynamic arrow of time

A new approach to artificial intelligence that builds in uncertainty

Facebook’s new polyglot AI can translate between 100 languages

Artificial intelligence can now predict students' educational outcomes based on tweets

Health

The AI that spots Alzheimer's from cookie drawing

USC leads massive new artificial intelligence study of Alzheimer's

With deep learning algorithms, standard CT technology produces spectral images

DrugCell: New experimental AI platform matches tumor to best drug combo

AI methods of analysing social networks find new cell types in tissue

Robots

Microsoft teamed up with a nonprofit using autonomous 'interceptor' boats to clean up the ocean and is helping it identify trash with machine learning

The US Navy is experimenting using drones to hand things off to ballistic missile submarines

Geoffrey the robot is the new, cute way to get contactless delivery in Toronto

Cars

C. Elegans inspires self-driving cars

Tesla owners share first glimpse of Full Self-Driving Beta in action, release notes, Autopilot settings

Brains

Neurons in a visual brain area of zebrafish are arranged as a map for catching prey

Comparing canine brains using 3D-endocast modelling

Building blocks of language evolved 30-40 million years ago

Cognitive performance - Better than our predecessors

Newborn brains lack maturity to process emotions as adults do

Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see words

Happy endings trip up the brain's decision-making

New model of human brain 'conversations' could inform research on brain disease, cognition

UMD-led study shows fear and anxiety share same bases in brain

Word graph analysis confirms that dream report structure varies according to sleep stage

Why can our brains learn and memorize?

Researchers discover 'spooky' similarity in how brains and computers see

What lies between grey and white in the brain