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