AI, ML, Robots and Brains (4.1. - 10.1.2021)

Society

What Buddhism can do for AI ethics

U.S. law sets stage for boost to artificial intelligence research

Five ways to make AI a greater force for good in 2021

Algorithms

OpenAI's DALL-E creates plausible images of literally anything you ask it to

Google AI concocts 'breakie' and 'cakie' hybrid baked goods

Machine learning improves particle accelerator diagnostics

Machine-learning models of matter beyond interatomic potentials

Automating turbulence modelling by multi-agent reinforcement learning

Health

A deep learning framework for drug repurposing via emulating clinical trials on real-world patient data

Using artificial intelligence to find new uses for existing medications

Deep learning helps predicting occult peritoneal metastasis in stomach cancer

Author Correction: Augmenting vascular disease diagnosis by vasculature-aware unsupervised learning

AI algorithms detect diabetic eye disease inconsistently

Researchers use deep learning to identify gene regulation at single-cell level

Deep neural network predicts transcription factors: A deep learning-based tool predicts transcription factors using protein sequences as inputs

Robots

Veo raises $25M for AI-based cameras that record and analyze football and other team sports

A robotic revolution for urban nature

Malaysian team turns pineapple waste into disposable drone parts

This robot dog learned how to get up after being knocked down

Cars

Tesla FSD Beta completes LA to Silicon Valley drive with zero interventions

Tesla's China rival Xpeng to use lidar sensors from DJI affiliate Livox

Oxbotica raises $47M to deploy its autonomous vehicle software in industrial applications

Hardware

Intel is using its RealSense tech for facial recognition

Panasonic's latest OLED TV offers gaming upgrades and AI tuning

Sony's new Bravia XR TVs are all about 'cognitive intelligence'

Speeding up machine learning by means of light

Light-based processors boost machine-learning processing

Brains

Which came first, sleep or the brain?

How mice feel each other's pain or fear

Intelligence deficit: Conclusion from the mouse to the human being

Brain evolution may have allowed our cognitive process to extend to technology

What happens when your brain can't tell which way is up or down?

Neuronal circuits for fine motor skills

A brain mechanism underlying 'vision' in the blind is revealed

We hear what we expect to hear

Making sense of neural development by comparing wiring strategies for seeing and hearing

Scientists paint multicolor atlas of the brain

Peeking inside 'mini-brains' could boost understanding of the human brain

Neuralink's Texas expansion takes root with construction job opening in Austin