AI, ML, Robots and Brains (8.2. - 14.2.2021)

Society

Minneapolis bans its police department from using facial recognition software

Sweden's data watchdog slaps police for unlawful use of Clearview AI

Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time

Deepfake porn is ruining women’s lives. Now the law may finally ban it.

Artificial emotional intelligence: a safer, smarter future with 5G and emotion recognition

Machines can do most of a psychologist's job. The industry must prepare for disruption

To succeed in an AI world, students must learn the human traits of writing

How humans can build better teamwork with robots

Algorithms

AI researchers ask: What's going on inside the black box?

Researchers built an AI that recognizes and rewards good doggos

Researcher uses machine learning to classify stellar objects from TESS data

SuperAnnotate, a computer vision platform, partners with OpenCV to spread visual ML

Canon's photo culling app uses AI to help you pick your best shots

New machine learning theory raises questions about nature of science

A language learning system that pays attention -- more efficiently than ever before

A convolutional neural-network model of human cochlear mechanics and filter tuning for real-time applications

Health

How machine learning is revolutionizing medical research in Nova Scotia and beyond

Machine learning could aid mental health diagnoses

Machine learning can help doctors diagnose Parkinson's disease by looking at patients' movements

New machine learning system developed to identify deteriorating patients in hospital

AI can predict early death risk: Algorithm using echocardiogram videos of the heart outperforms other predictors of mortality

AI can make accurate assessment of whether a person will die from COVID-19, study finds

The AI-driven initiative that's hastening the discovery of drugs to treat COVID-19

Artificial intelligence yields new ways to combat the coronavirus

Machine-learning how to create better AAV gene delivery vehicles

Algorithm that performs as accurately as dermatologists

Robots

MIT researchers created a system that prints functional drones and robots

DoorDash acquires salad-making robotics startup, Chowbotics

Spider legs build webs without the brain's help—providing a model for future robot limbs

Robots sense human touch using camera and shadows

Emerging robotics technology may lead to better buildings in less time

Collective worm and robot 'blobs' protect individuals, swarm together

Drone-based photogrammetry: A reliable and low-cost method for estimating plant biomass

Cars

Toyota is developing autonomous taxis with help from Aurora

Volkswagen partners with Microsoft on automated cars

Tesla FSD Beta avoids reckless skateboarders in tricky inner-city encounter

'Absolutely brilliant': an auto-manufacturing expert praised Tesla's latest self-driving software after a test ride

Author Correction: High-resolution radar road segmentation using weakly supervised learning

Hardware

Researchers create low-cost, AI-powered device to measure optical spectra

Silicon chip provides low cost solution to help machines see the world clearly

Brains

Using genetic sequencing to determine if bird and mammal brains work the same

Study contradicts belief that whales learn songs from one another

Pigs show potential for 'remarkable' level of behavioral, mental flexibility in new study

All in the head? Brains adapt to support new species

Neandertal genes alter neurodevelopment in modern human brain organoids

As you look around, mental images bounce between right and left brain

Changing the connection between the hemispheres affects speech perception

Time perception and sense of touch: a new connection

Synchronization of brain hemispheres changes what we hear

Discovering structural diverseness of neurons between brain areas and between cases

How do our memories take shape?

Memory may not serve completely correctly in new study

Object transparency reduces human perception of three-dimensional shapes

Experiment shows how our visual system avoids overloading

Correspondence between representations in visual cortices and neural networks

How the brain makes sense of touch

Where and when is economic decision-making represented in the brain?

Can the brain resist the group opinion?

How messenger substances influence individual decision-making

New "molecular" tool helps shed light on individual synapses in brain cells

Auditory brainstem pathways do not develop properly without microglia

Brain activity can reveal the severity of autistic traits

Tiny population of neurons may have big role in depression

Digital Transformation (8.2. - 14.2.2021)

Webinar: Data management best practices

Data protection resolutions you should keep this year

Also, ensure you have your backup strategy in place

Prioritizing: The data quadrants of haves and needs

Improving data quality with feedback loops

Now, what is difference between data science and business intelligence? 

Trunk based development for data and analytics engineers

Why AI projects fail? Three ways

Finance AI and CFO digitalization efforts

Storage as an essential component of ML systems

Feature engineering and feature management is as important as algorithm selection

Comparison of three machine learning platforms: IBM Watson, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud AI

And what is MLOps?

IT links (8.2. - 14.2.2021)

What is Java HashMap load factor?

Implementing compareTo method in Java, more detailed guide 

JDK 16 - the first release candidate is available now

And nice draft of javadoc code samples support for one of future versions of Java

Preventing Cross-Site Scripting in Spring application

The InfoQ eMag: Re-Examining Microservices after the First Decade

Lessons from maintaining AWS serverless software in production

This was really nice talk at QCon London 2020 - Migrating monoliths to microservices with decomposition and incremental changes

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (8.2. - 14.2.2021)

Society

Clearview AI ruled 'illegal' by Canadian privacy authorities

'Orwellian' AI lie detector project challenged in EU court

Google engineers leave the company over controversial exit of top AI ethicist

The battle of algorithms: Uncovering offensive AI

AI Dungeon-maker Latitude raises $3.3M to build games with 'infinite' story possibilities

Algorithms

SLAS Technology special collection on AI in process automation available now

An open source machine learning framework for efficient and transparent systematic reviews

Microsoft opens limited access to its neural text-to-speech AI

'Audeo' teaches artificial intelligence to play the piano

RUDN University mathematicians reduced neural network size six times without post-training

Unlimited computer fractals can help train AI to see

Thanks to machine learning, the future of catalyst research is now!

Chemistry and computer science join forces to apply artificial intelligence to chemical reactions

"Ghost particle" ML model permits full quantum description of the solvated electron

AI finds more than 1,200 gravitational lensing candidates

MARLIT, an artificial intelligence-based app to study floating marine macro-litter

Health

Designing and evaluating medical deep learning systems

Extraction of protein dynamics information from cryo-EM maps using deep learning

New AI tool can thwart coronavirus mutations

A deep learning framework for high-throughput mechanism-driven phenotype compound screening and its application to COVID-19 drug repurposing

Machine learning generates realistic genomes for imaginary humans

Harvard researchers use machine learning models to study health impacts of walnuts

Near-infrared imaging and machine learning can identify hidden tumors

Using Artificial Intelligence to prevent harm caused by immunotherapy

Machine-learning model helps determine protein structures

Robots

Boston Dynamics trains Spot the robot dog to charge itself

Could eyelash extensions become a huge market? This robotics startup thinks so

How modern robots are developed

Speedy robots gather spectra for sky surveys

Origami-like patch could help robot surgeons repair internal injuries

Discovery could lead to self-propelled robots

Artificial skin brings robots closer to 'touching' human lives

Cars

High-resolution radar road segmentation using weakly supervised learning

People blame a vehicle's automated system more than its driver when accidents happen

Tesla Model S owner makes in-car video conference calls possible in preparation for an autonomous future

Ford plans to invest $29 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles

CNBC: Apple, Hyundai deal to build an autonomous Apple Car is 'close'

Hardware

The first steps toward a quantum brain

Brains

Hormones are key in brain health differences between men and women

A study reveals that the brain distributes sensory information highly efficiently

Study identifies brain areas that support social semantic accumulation

Audiovisual professionalisation affects how the brain perceives media content

Modeling the brain during pain processing

Study reveals neurons responsible for rapidly stopping behaviors, actions

New research studies 'domino effects' and synchrony in brain activity

Researchers visualize neuron activity

Researchers find a way to increase spatial resolution in brain activity visualization

Desktop PCs run simulations of mammals' brains

Newly discovered brain pattern has implications for treating paralyzed, Parkinson's patients

Study links brain cells to depression

Digital Transformation (1.2. - 7.2.2021)

Webinar: How is a data catalog helping with cloud transformation and implementation of data fabric approach? + more emerging trends in data architecture 

COVID-19 was a major catalyst for cloud adoption last year, now we need to focus more on data responsibility

Resembling cloud adoption to transportation evolution - from Ford to Tesla

To be able to trust cloud computing, you need to be able to trust it less, and more - a short summary of three Google Cloud articles related to cloud trust

How to build a data culture in your organization? - 6 steps

Two articles related to data mesh:

 - Data mesh - what is it and why?

 - Is your organization ready for data mesh?

Traditional vs modern data warehouse and related concepts

Databases, event streams, and data management

DAGsHub Storage - managing data and models with "GitHub" for ML

IT links (1.2. - 7.2.2021)

Newly released IntelliJ IDEA 2021.1 EAP 1 provides full support for Java 16

How much faster is Java 15 in comparison to Java 11? 

The new JEP-396 is going to strongly encapsulate JDK internals by default (in JDK 16 and JDK 17) 

Testing Spring Boot applications with REST Assured Java DSL

A lightweight SQL data mapper with the JdbcTemplate

Amazon Aurora supports also PostgreSQL 12 now

Kaggle has published 2020 State of Machine Learning and Data Science Report

And generating new ideas in any field with a neural network trained on the US Patent Database

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (25.1. - 31.1.2021)

Society

New advances in the detection of bias in face recognition algorithms

An AI saw a cropped photo of AOC. It autocompleted her wearing a bikini.

Researchers use AI to help businesses understand Code of Federal Regs, other legal docs

How will seafarers fare once automated ships take over? Scientists predict the future

Algorithms

'Liquid' machine-learning system adapts to changing conditions: The new type of neural network could aid decision making in autonomous driving and medical diagnosis

Researchers built an AI that plays chess like a person, not a super computer

Harnessing the power of AI to understand warm dense matter

Machine-learning to predict the performance of organic solar cells

Mapping the space of chemical reactions using attention-based neural networks

Autofocusing of microscopy images using deep learning

Cadeera is doing AI visual search for home décor

Finesse raises $4.5M to predict fashion trends with AI

Smart algorithm cleans up images by searching for clues buried in noise

Neural network has learned to identify tree species

Five ways artificial intelligence can help space exploration

Sextuply-eclipsing sextuple star system uncovered in TESS data with an assist from AI

Health

Scientists publish a blueprint to apply artificial intelligence to extend human longevity

New AI-severity score COVID-19 integrating CT images published to Nature Communications

Using machine learning to identify ancient RNA viruses in the human genome

Using deep neural networks to identify features that may predict transcription factor binding

MIT's oncological risk AI calculates cancer chances regardless of race

Automated AI algorithm uses routine imaging to predict cardiovascular risk

New neural network enables easy screening of sleep apnoea in patients with cerebrovascular disease

AI used to predict early symptoms of schizophrenia in relatives of patients

Detecting ADHD with near perfect accuracy

Robots

Wingcopter raises $22 million to expand to the US and launch a next-generation drone

Walmart will use robots to turn stores into automated fulfillment centers

Hyundai rolls out adorable customer service robot for its showrooms

Fetch’s latest warehouse robot is designed to replace forklifts

Starship Technologies raises $17M to roll out more delivery bots

Cars

Tesla FSD Beta pushed to limits in real-world torture test

Tesla says its Full Self-Driving subscription is coming 'in a month or two'

Tesla bull ARK Invest estimates autonomous ride-hailing to generate over $1T in revenue by 2030

Tesla is willing to license Autopilot and has already had 'preliminary discussions' about it with other automakers

Driverless robotaxis are now available for public rides in China

Tesla and Samsung team up to develop autonomous driving hardware

Baidu secures license for full driverless road tests in California

Autonomous driving startup Uisee attracts Chinese state investor in $150M round

Hardware

Photonics for artificial intelligence and neuromorphic computing

Brains

A newly discovered circuit helps fish to prioritize

At three days old, newborn mice remember their moms

Study provides insight into how the brain may have evolved

Squeeze it like toothpaste: The flexible brain of marsupial mammals

Turning on the switch for plasticity in the human brain

Stimulating brain pathways shows origins of human language and memory

Watching decision making in the brain

Risk-taking behavior has a signature in the brain, big data shows

Brain activity during speaking varies between simple and complex grammatical forms

Scientists identify individual neurons responsible for complex social reasoning in humans

How the brain is programmed for computer programming?

A NEAT reduction of complex neuronal models accelerates brain research

A computational approach to understanding how infants perceive language

Secrets of traumatic stress hidden in the brain are exposed

Epilepsy research focused on astrocytes

Digital Transformation (25.1. - 31.1.2021)

2021 predictions - need to move data to the cloud, or between clouds can be a challenge that could be overcome with containers. Also, we can expect more emphasis on object storages and more tasks automation.

Other challenges that we can expect this year are a bigger focus on behavioral analytics - connecting and leveraging data containing information about people and models based on this type of data, increase in adoption of anywhere operations strategy together with more processes automation.

Webinar: Data and metadata will not govern themselves

Managing business metadata 

4 pillars of data integrity

Experiment - how much are column types affecting joins in BigQuery?

Bridging data warehouses and data lakes

And are data lakes really dead?

A Design Pattern for ETL projects - DMOT - Data model, orchestrator, transformer

What is data fabric?

An interview with authors of "Deploying AI in the Enterprise" book

IT links (25.1. - 31.1.2021)

Bad practices with synchronization in Java

Examples of structural design patterns in core Java

What was deprecated and what is new in Selenium 4 - and how to upgrade from Selenium 3 to Selenium 4

AWS: Overview of shared responsibility model

AWS: Overview of CloudWatch metrics for AWS Lambda

Applying strategy design pattern to the evaluation of alternative machine learning models

Latency numbers every team should know - the importance of fast feedback loops

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (18.1. - 24.1.2021)

Society

Google is investigating an AI researcher over the handling of sensitive data

When a story is breaking, AI can help consumers identify fake news

The Biden administration’s AI plans: what we might expect

Algorithms

Using artificial intelligence to manage extreme weather events

Angstrom multilayer metrology by combining spectral measurements and machine learning

Transforming the energy industry with AI

Facebook and Instagram's AI-generated image captions now offer far more details

AI-powered transcription service Otter.ai can now record from Google Meet

AI trained to read electric vehicle charging station reviews to find infrastructure gaps

Health

AI could make health care fairer—by helping us believe what patients say

Hitting the Books: AI doctors and the dangers tiered medical care

Artificial intelligence helps in the search for new antibiotics

Deep neural networks identify sequence context features predictive of transcription factor binding

Cancer can be precisely diagnosed using a urine test with artificial intelligence

This startup says its AI can better spot a healthy embryo -- and improve IVF success

Robots

Using drones to create local quantum networks

Drone-focused construction startup TraceAir raises $3.5M

Smooth touchdown: novel camera-based system for automated landing of drone on a fixed spot

Enhancing optical-flow-based control by learning visual appearance cues for flying robots

South African startup Aerobotics raises $17M to scale its AI-for-agriculture platform

Squid-inspired robot swims with nature's most efficient marine animals

MIT aims to speed up robot movements to match robot thoughts using custom chips

Robot learns fast but safe navigation strategy

How to train a robot (using AI and supercomputers)

These virtual robot arms get smarter by training each other

Designing customized "brains" for robots

Cars

Startups look beyond lidar for autonomous vehicle perception

Tesla FSD's vision-based approach critiqued by Waymo CEO: ‘Our sensors are orders of magnitude better’

Brains

Timing is of the essence when treating brain swelling in mice

A biological strategy reveals how efficient brain circuitry develops spontaneously

How the brain learns that earmuffs are not valuable at the beach

Neuronal recycling: This is how our brain allows us to read

The brain region responsible for self-bias in memory

A neuronal cocktail for motivation

Tiny high-tech probes reveal how information flows across the brain

Where do our minds wander? Brain waves can point the way

Different types of neurons interact to make reaching-and-grasping tasks possible

Memory fail controlled by dopamine circuit: 'Transient forgetting' mechanism revealed; pauses thought without abolishing long-term memories

RUDN University neurosurgeon created a method to collect mental activity data of software developers

Personalized brain stimulation alleviates severe depression symptoms

Brain cell network supplies neurons with energy

Balancing brain cell activity

Size of connections between nerve cells determines their signaling strength