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