AI, ML, Robots and Brains (5.4. - 11.4.2021)

Society

Thousands of US government agencies using Clearview AI without approval

The NYPD used Clearview's controversial facial recognition tool. Here’s what you need to know

Drones that swarmed U.S. warships are still unidentified, Navy chief says

Preparing for AI-enabled cyberattacks

Society is not ready to make human brains

Hitting the Books: How biased AI can hurt users or boost a business's bottom line

Wonder Dynamics raises $2.5M seed to equip indie filmmakers with AI-powered VFX

Facebook asked people to share their age and gender to create a fairer AI dataset

Algorithms

Authentic Artists is building virtual, AI-powered musicians

Rice, Intel optimize AI training for commodity hardware

Deep learning networks prefer the human voice -- just like us

Artificial intelligence to explore the biomolecular world

New machine learning method accurately predicts battery state of health

Unsupervised behaviour analysis and magnification (uBAM) using deep learning

Machine-learning methods lead to discovery of rare 'quadruply imaged quasars'

Health

Using AI to safely add people with red flags to clinical trials

AI-powered symptom checkers can help healthcare systems deal with the COVID-19 burden

Going deep: Artificial intelligence improves accuracy of breast ultrasound diagnoses

New multiple sclerosis subtypes identified using artificial intelligence

Artificial Intelligence could 'crack the language of cancer and Alzheimer's'

Using AI to diagnose neurological diseases based on motor impairment

Robots

Valkyrie drone launches even smaller drone from inside payload bay

US Air Force could use swarms of drones to overpower enemy defence systems

Boston Dynamics' Spot robot tested in combat training with the French army

Forget Boston Dynamics. This robot taught itself to walk with AI

Sky shepherding: Using drones to herd sheep ethically

AppHarvest buys ag-robotics firm, Root AI

Robots can be more aware of human co-workers, with system that provides context

Cars

Elon Musk explains Tesla's pure vision approach to Autopilot and Full Self-Driving

Brains

The brain may have evolved to regulate digestion in presence of light rather than food stimuli

'Bug brain soup' expands menu for scientists studying animal brains

Understanding fruit fly behavior may be next step toward autonomous vehicles

New pig brain maps facilitate human neuroscience discoveries

Whales can learn about danger and can warn each other, according to a study of how they dodged whaling ships in the 19th century

Modern human brain originated in Africa around 1.7 million years ago

Scientists identify new differences between the sexes in age-related changes to brain stem cells

An interactive visual database for American Sign Language reveals how signs are organized in the mind

Study finds brain regions respond to familiar and unfamiliar music, even without musical training

Why our brains miss opportunities to improve through subtraction

New blueprint of brain connections reveals extensive reach of central regulator

Oregon researchers identify pathway that transitions brain from plasticity to stability

The structure and function of cortical brain cells modulated by attention

Brain cells decide on their own when to release pleasure hormone

Unique mini-microscope provides insight into complex brain functions

Light shed on the coordination of neural stem cell activation

Leptin puts the brakes on eating via novel neurocircuit

Autism gene study finds widespread impact to brain's growth signaling network

Mapping neural connections in Parkinson's disease