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