AI, ML, Robots and Brains (8.3. - 14.3.2021)

Society

Biased AI can be bad for your health—here's how to promote algorithmic fairness

Assessing regulatory fairness through machine learning

Someone to watch over AI and keep it honest - and it's not the public!

Research explores promoting public trust in AI

Dutch court rejects Uber drivers' 'robo-firing' charge but tells Ola to explain algo-deductions

Large computer language models carry environmental, social risks

How do you make a convincing deepfake video? – podcast

New tool makes students better at detecting fake imagery and videos

How to spot deepfakes? Look at light reflection in the eyes

New machine learning model could remove bias from social network connections

Algorithm helps artificial intelligence systems dodge 'adversarial' inputs

Skoltech team shows how Turing-like patterns fool neural networks

Algorithms

In a leap for battery research, machine learning gets scientific smarts

Hundreds of sewage leaks detected thanks to AI

Using artificial intelligence to generate 3D holograms in real-time

New approach found for energy-efficient AI applications

A versatile deep learning architecture for classification and label-free prediction of hyperspectral images

Scientists use 3D-printed rocks, machine learning to detect unexpected earthquakes

Optimized spiking neurons can classify images with high accuracy through temporal coding with two spikes

Health

Eye surgery robotics startup ForSight raises $10M

Ibex Medical Analytics raises $38M for its AI-powered cancer diagnostic platform

Making the role of AI in medicine explainable

The amazing promise of artificial intelligence in health care

Using the power of artificial intelligence to detect disease

Sewage-testing robots process wastewater faster to predict COVID-19 outbreaks sooner

First AI system for contactless monitoring of heart rhythm using smart speakers

Artificial intelligence calculates suicide attempt risk

Using AI to assess surgical performance

AI analysis of how bacteria attack could help predict infection outcomes

First study to use AI to find indicators of pain in patients' vital signs data

New method could democratize deep learning-enhanced microscopy

Robots

Last-mile delivery robotics company Refraction AI raises $4.2M

This robot artist stops to consider its brushstrokes like a real person

Successful trial shows way forward on quieter drone propellers

Robots can use eye contact to draw out reluctant participants in groups

Robots learn faster with quantum technology

Cars

Luminar, Volvo subsidiary partner to sell automated driving systems to automakers

Level 2 systems like Tesla Autopilot can improve drivers’ attentiveness: IIHS study

Tesla FSD Beta aces extreme stress test with tons of edge cases

Hardware

AI holographic nanostructures on CMOS chips for energy-efficient security schemes

Brains

Scientists discover structural changes in adult mice brains as seen in young animals

Whale and dolphin brains are special—for heat production, not for intelligence

Universal prosodic cues facilitate learning in both animals and humans

New study identifies a limit on the range of vocalizations that support infant cognition

Neural mechanism that senses body position in space is present soon after birth

Watching the brain learn

Brain activity foreshadows changes in stock prices

Where am I going? Just ask your subiculum

Cognitive fatigue changes functional connectivity in brain's fatigue network

Why odors trigger powerful memories

Making decisions based on how we feel about memories, not accuracy

Mapping functional connectivity in 3-D artificial brain model by analyzing neural signals

Think the brain is always efficient? Think again.

Diverse neural signals are key to rich visual information

Growing neurons gain an edge by making connections