AI, ML, Robots and Brains (15.2. - 21.2.2021)

Society

Computer says go: Taking orders from an AI boss

What impact will robots and autonomous systems have on urban ecosystems?

Low-wage workers at risk for automation: study

Army researchers expand study of ethics, artificial intelligence

Institutionalizing ethics in AI through broader impact requirements

Artificial intelligence may help achieve UN's Sustainable Development Goals

A definition, benchmark and database of AI for social good initiatives

How likely are consumers to adopt artificial intelligence for banking advice?

Fujitsu leverages world's fastest supercomputer and AI to predict tsunami flooding

Google has a new responsible AI lead

Google fires top AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell

AI may mistake chess discussions as racist talk

Algorithms

Real-time behavioral analysis using artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence predicts nonlinear ultrafast dynamics in optics

Health

AI used to 'predict the next coronavirus'

Drug companies look to AI to end 'hit and miss' research

Artificial intelligence supports medical prognoses

Explainable AI for decoding genome biology

Neural network could help clinicians look for 'ugly duckling' pre-cancerous skin lesions

Child brain tumors can be classified by advanced imaging and AI

AI predicts efficacy of breast cancer treatment directly from tumor architecture

Robots

UC San Diego's electronics-free soft robot only needs pressurized air to move

Cars

Apple reportedly talked to Nissan about building its self-driving EV

Tesla Model X with FSD beta drives itself to service center with no interventions

Waymo's set to test its self-driving taxis in San Francisco

Brains

Where did brains come from?

Octopuses have a secret sense to keep their 8 arms out of trouble

How mouse brains reorganize old memories when new ones are laid down

Dogs may have body-awareness and understand consequences of own actions

Dolphins have similar personality traits to humans, study finds

Evidence shows how the human brain may tap into visual cues when lacking a sense of touch

How the brain processes sign language

Peeking at the pathfinding strategies of the hippocampus in the brain

Scalable representation of time in the hippocampus

Taste and its two ways to the brain

Brain activity can predict resilience against post-traumatic stress

How the 'noise' in our brain influences our behavior

Study shows how some neurons compensate for death of their neighbors

Making sense of the mass data generated from firing neurons