AI, ML, Robots and Brains (16.11. - 22.11.2020)

Society

Could robots for sex, friendship improve our aging society?

Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society

Facebook hopes its new AI moderation tools can further counter hate speech

Coaching sales agents? Use AI and human coaches

Can We Make Our Robots Less Biased Than We Are?

How role-playing a dragon can teach an AI to manipulate and persuade

Computer vision startup Chooch.ai scores $20M Series A

Algorithms

Showing robots how to drive a car...in just a few easy lessons

Machine learning guarantees robots' performance in unknown territory

A neural network learns when it should not be trusted

Do neural networks dream visual illusions?

The way we train AI is fundamentally flawed

New test reveals AI still lacks common sense

AI tool may predict movies' future ratings

Google has created an AI-powered nightmare creature generator

Kea raises $10M to build AI that helps restaurants answer the phone

An AI helps you summarize the latest in AI

Artificial intelligence and satellite technologies reveal detailed map of air pollution across UK

Weather forecasts get an AI update with Atmo as businesses grapple with climate-related catastrophes

Fostering creativity in researchers: how automation can revolutionize materials research

New method brings physics to deep learning to better simulate turbulence

Scientists propose machine learning method for 2-D material spectroscopy

Machine learning innovation to develop chemical library

Flame on! How AI may tame a complex materials technique and transform manufacturing

Palladium, meet copper: Researchers use machine learning to improve catalysts

Machine learning yields a breakthrough in the study of stellar nurseries

Health

XPrize's latest challenge wants AI to better predict COVID-19 transmission rates

Collaborative AI effort unraveling SARS-CoV-2 mysteries wins Gordon Bell Special Prize

DeepER tool uses deep learning to better allocate emergency services

Personalized deep learning of individual immunopeptidomes to identify neoantigens for cancer vaccines

Google is testing an AI system to help vision-impaired people run races

AI may predict response to immune checkpoint blockade in patients with metastatic melanoma

Machine learning innovation to develop chemical library for drug discovery

Can facial recognition help identify congenital adrenal hyperplasia?

Artificial intelligence-based tool may help diagnose opioid addiction earlier

Artificial intelligence program can pick best candidates for skin cancer treatment

Machine learning uncovers missing info about ethnicity in population health data

Robots

Sequoia-backed recycling robot maker AMP Robotics gets its largest purchase order

Linkage in catfish head could inspire new underwater robots

Army, MIT explore materials for transforming robots made of robots

Amazon’s drone delivery team hit with layoffs amid reorganization

Interlocking AIs let robots pick and place faster than ever

Cars

Ride Vision raises $7M for its AI-based motorcycle safety system

Upgraded radar can enable self-driving cars to see clearly no matter the weather

Mobileye taps Luminar to supply lidar for its robotaxi fleet

Robotaxi companies get the green light to charge for rides in California

Motional gets approval to test fully driverless vehicles in Nevada

Motional's fully driverless cars are coming to Nevada's roads for testing

Hardware

Deep Vision announces its low-latency AI processor for the edge

New electronic chip delivers smarter, light-powered AI

Evolutionary training and abstraction yields algorithmic generalization of neural computers

Brains

Zebra finches found able to remember up to 42 birds based on their vocalizations

Bats have different song cultures and chatter about food, sleep, sex and other bats

Teaching and complex tools 'evolved together'

Scientists discover new mechanism controlling brain size

Does the human brain resemble the Universe?

Who is the world's best super-recogniser? This test could help us find them

From the inside out: How the brain forms sensory memories

Memories create 'fingerprints' that reveal how the brain is organized

Key source of memories

Envision color: Activity patterns in the brain are specific to the color you see

Motor neural population activity patterns are different for reach and grasp behaviors

Changes to the brain's reward system may drive overeating in mice