AI, ML, Robots and Brains (7.12. - 13.12.2020)

Society

Huawei tested facial recognition that targeted Uyghurs in China

Studying trust in autonomous products

AI needs to face up to its invisible-worker problem

Netflix explains how it uses AI to sell you on a show

'The robot made me do it': Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in people

iHuman review – doom-laden documentary about the future of AI

How artificial intelligence helped me overcome my dyslexia

SoftBank has reportedly sold Boston Dynamics to Hyundai

Robot lawyer startup DoNotPay now lets you file FOIA requests

Cleo, the AI-powered 'financial assistant', raises $44M Series B led by EQT Ventures

Algorithms

Artificial Chemist 2.0: quantum dot R&D in less than an hour

Predicting British railway delays using artificial intelligence

Reusability report: Designing organic photoelectronic molecules with descriptor conditional recurrent neural networks

Artificial intelligence helps scientists develop new general models in ecology

Artificial intelligence finds surprising patterns in Earth's biological mass extinctions

Self-learning algorithms for different imaging datasets

Google used a 64-camera rig to train its portrait lighting AI

NVIDIA found a way to train AI with very little data

Network of evolvable neural units can learn synaptic learning rules and spiking dynamics

Artificial intelligence improves control of powerful plasma accelerators

Health

Study details first artificial intelligence tool to help labs rule-out COVID-19

UMBC researchers use machine learning to develop more accurate COVID-19 diagnostic tool

Gene set inference from single-cell sequencing data using a hybrid of matrix factorization and variational autoencoders

Synthetic biology and machine learning speed the creation of lab-grown livers

Machine learning identifies new brain network signature of major depression

Predicting epilepsy from neural network models

Deep learning for tomographic image reconstruction

How AI could make therapeutic decision-making for breast cancer more accurate, affordable

New method uses artificial intelligence to study live cells

Robots

A study predicts smooth interaction between humans and robots

Robot dogs being tested at Kansas research facility

Robots could replace real therapy dogs

Tiny water-based robot is powered by light and can walk, move cargo and even dance

Boeing's tanker drone completes first flight with refueling pod

The first 9 attempts to retrieve swarming Gremlins drones failed. Here’s what’s next.

Army looks to improve quadrotor drone performance

Flamethrower drone incinerates wasp nests in China

Drones and AI detect soybean maturity with high accuracy

Smellicopter: an obstacle-avoiding drone that uses a live moth antenna to seek out smells

Cars

Uber sells self-driving unit Uber ATG in deal that will push Aurora's valuation to $10B

Apple brings in TSMC to develop chips for Tesla-like self-driving 'Apple Car'

Ford's autonomous cars are delivering fresh produce in Miami

Tesla FSD beta's behind the scenes look reveals insane range of options and detail

Tesla's FSD Beta has met its match with tricky construction zones

Hardware

Split wave: Component for neuromorphic computer

AI can now train on tiny 4-bit computers

Breakthrough optical sensor mimics human eye, a key step toward better artificial intelligence

Artificial visual system of record-low energy consumption for the next generation of AI

Brains

Cognitive performance of four-months-old ravens may parallel adult apes

Problems with depth perception caused by too many cells

Brain clears the way for binocular vision even before eyes are open

New fundamental knowledge of the 'abdominal brain'

Grasping an object - model describes complete movement planning in the brain

Visual short-term memory is more complex than previously assumed

How neurons form long-term memories

How the brain remembers right place, right time

How the brain distinguishes fact from possibility

Brains work harder while processing descriptions of motion in other languages

Astrocytes improve decision-making

A role for the slow oscillations of the neocortex in epileptic spasm generation

New tool for watching and controlling neural activity

Why brain scans are falling out of favour for some scientists