AI, ML, Robots and Brains (14.12. - 20.12.2020)

Society

Timnit Gebru: Google and big tech are 'institutionally racist'

Google AI team demands changes after Dr. Timnit Gebru's departure

Study IDs four things that make people feel good about using chatbots

'Poverty line' concept debunked by new machine learning model

Doctoral thesis introduces a scale to measure human's trust in technology

Algorithms

Teaching artificial intelligence to adapt

Artificial Intelligence that can run a simulation faithful to physical laws

Accurate neural network computer vision without the 'black box'

New study tests machine learning on detection of borrowed words in world languages: Underwhelming results underscore the complexity of language evolution while showing promise in some current applications

Machine learning boosts the search for 'superhard' materials

Semiconductor material analysis made possible with artificial intelligence

AI model shows promise to generate faster, more accurate weather forecasts

Artificial intelligence sets sights on the sun

Health

Challenges of fusing robotics and neuroscience

Researchers uncover blind spots at the intersection of AI and neuroscience: Findings debunk dozens of prominent published papers claiming to read minds with EEG

Cholera outbreaks predicted using climate data and AI

AI-powered microscope could check cancer margins in minutes

AI that detects post-stroke depression type can help stroke survivors get right treatment

AI-supported test predicts eye disease three years before symptoms

From molecule to medicine via machine learning

Scientists publish the first human psychological aging clock using artificial intelligence

HSE researchers use neural networks to study DNA

Robots

Following Hyundai acquisition, Boston Dynamics’ CEO discusses the robotics pioneer’s future

How computer simulation will accelerate development of human-interactive "smart robots"

AI robot co-pilots US military spy plane in world first

Robomart launches its mobile convenience store in beta for West Hollywood residents

Invention may get quadcopters to move faster

The machines that get walnuts from trees to your mouth

Engineers develop soft robotic gripper

'Chaotic' way to create insectlike gaits for robots

Cars

Building a self-driving car that people can trust

Amazon's Zoox unveils electric robotaxi that can travel up to 75 mph

Walmart will test driverless delivery trucks in Arkansas next year

Motional and Lyft target 2023 to deploy driverless robotaxi services in major US cities

Tesla Full Self-Driving's cool augmented reality view previewed by noted hacker

Tesla owner credits Autopilot for avoiding disaster in odd collision with distracted driver

Hardware

Chameleon-like material spiked with boron comes closer to mimicking brain cells

Developing smarter, faster machine intelligence with light

Brains

Research reveals unexpected insights into early dinosaur's brain, eating habits and agility

'What's that Skip?' Researchers say kangaroos can communicate with people

Irrelevant information interferes with making decisions, new research reveals

Study sheds new light on how the brain distinguishes speech from noise

Researchers reveal how our brains know when something's different

How childhood brain function and memory skills shape each other

Computational model reveals how the brain manages short-term memories

This is your brain on code: JHU deciphers neural mechanics of computer programming

Losing money causes plastic changes in the brain

How does the brain project manage its learning?

NIH researchers discover brain area crucial for recognizing visual events

Scientists show what loneliness looks like in the brain

Researchers discover brain pattern that could improve mental health disorder diagnosis

Big brains and white matter: New clues about autism subtypes

Clemson researcher identifies gene teams working in subregions of brain

The DNA regions in our brain that contribute to make us human

New approach reveals structure and function of individual synapses

Perirhinal input to neocortical layer 1 controls learning

A new means of neuronal communication discovered in the human brain

The uncharted molecular language of the brain

Machine intelligence accelerates research into mapping brains