AI, ML, Robots and Brains (12.4. - 18.4.2021)

Society

EU plan for risk-based AI rules to set fines as high as 4% of global turnover, per leaked draft

Uber hit with default 'robo-firing' ruling after another EU labor rights GDPR challenge

Podcast: What’s AI doing in your wallet?

The future of artificial intelligence requires the guidance of sociology

Geoffrey Hinton has a hunch about what’s next for AI

Why is AI mostly presented as female in pop culture and demos?

AI ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots can be our partners’

People may trust computers more than humans

Algorithms

Tell me who your friends are: Neural network uses data on banking transactions for credit scoring

AI pinpoints local pollution hotspots using satellite images

Dynamical machine learning accurately reconstructs volume interiors with limited-angle data

Combining news media and AI to rapidly identify flooded buildings

27 million galaxy morphologies quantified and cataloged with the help of machine learning

Galileo sunspot sketches versus modern 'deep learning' AI

Health

Designing better antibody drugs with artificial intelligence

AI-powered algorithm released to detect the third wave in South Africa

FDA OKs marketing of first AI device used to detect lesions during colonoscopy

Student-developed machine-learning techniques make surgeries safer, easier to review

Memic raises $96M for its robot-assisted surgery platform

Machine learning can help with treatment planning and proper management of tongue cancer

Integration of multiomics data with graph convolutional networks to identify new cancer genes and their associated molecular mechanisms

165 new cancer genes identified with the help of machine learning

Machine learning can help slow down future pandemics

Cytosponge-AI combo could help doctors diagnose Barrett's esophagus

Deep Learning model to maximize lifespan after liver transplant

Artificial intelligence can accelerate clinical diagnosis of fragile X syndrome

Robots

CMU teaches its snake robot to swim

Sound location inspired by bat ears could help robots navigate outdoors

Xwing completes first autonomous gate-to-gate commercial cargo flight

Betting on drones as smart agricultural tools for pesticide use in farms

Cars

Tesla Full Self-Driving subscription gets definitive release date from Elon Musk

‘No one was driving’ Tesla before fatal fiery crash that kept reigniting, Texas cops say

Tesla's FSD suite is impressive, but Aurora CEO says, 'We were doing better in 2010'

Ford shows BlueCruise hands-free driving while CEO Farley takes jab at Tesla

Domino's, Nuro to begin autonomous pizza deliveries in Houston

Chinese autonomous vehicle startup WeRide scores permit to test driverless cars in San Jose

Intel's Mobileye teams with Udelv to launch 35,000 driverless delivery vehicles by 2028

GM's Cruise will operate a robotaxi service in Dubai

China’s Xpeng in the race to automate EVs with lidar

Oxbotica raises $13.8M from Ocado to build autonomous vehicle tech for the online grocer's logistics network

Hardware

Dendritic computers: When 1 + 1 = 3

Machine learning at speed

Brains

Fruit flies give researchers new insights into the 'highway of the nerve cells'

In pig brain development, nature beats nurture

Bigger brains gave squirrels the capacity to move up in the world

Physicists develop theoretical model for neural activity of mouse brain

Head-mounted microscope captures brain activity in freely behaving mice

A neuromagnetic view through the skull

The hunger games: Uncovering the secret of the hunger switch in the brain

Research breakthrough in understanding how neural systems process and store information

Knowing how the brain retrieves facts may help people with memory disorders

Study identifies two neuronal populations associated with symptoms of Parkinson's disease

New study reveals brain basis of psychopathy

Researchers map brain regions responsible for intoxicating effects of alcohol