AI, ML, Robots and Brains (19.4. - 25.4.2021)

Society

ACLU and 70 other organizations ask DHS to stop using Clearview AI

Senators want to block government agencies from buying Clearview AI data

Dutch politicians were tricked by a deepfake video chat

A growing problem of 'deepfake geography': How AI falsifies satellite images

EU outlines ambitious AI regulations focused on risky uses

New AI tool tracks evolution of COVID-19 conspiracy theories on social media

AI algorithms can influence people's voting and dating decisions in experiments

Researchers use AI to empower environmental regulators

Algorithms

Sony's 'FlavorGraph' uses AI to predict how ingredients will pair together

SMART breakthrough to enhance travel behavior research with artificial neural networks

Army researchers create pioneering approach to real-time conversational AI 

Teaching recurrent neural networks to infer global temporal structure from local examples

3D deep neural network precisely reconstructs freely-behaving animal's movements

Machine learning model generates realistic seismic waveforms

DeepShake uses machine learning to rapidly estimate earthquake shaking intensity

An easy-to-use platform is a gateway to AI in microscopy

Understanding interfaces of hybrid materials with machine learning

AI agent helps identify material properties faster

Can machine learning improve debris flow warning?

New AI tool calculates materials' stress and strain based on photos

Health

Are medical AI devices evaluated appropriately?

Robotic infrastructure elements proposed to bolster performance of infectious hospitals

Direct-to-consumer medical machine learning and artificial intelligence applications

Artificial intelligence model predicts which key of the immune system opens the locks of coronavirus

AI-based system could help triage brain MRIs

Newly developed AI uses combination of ECG and X-ray results to diagnose arrhythmic disorders

Artificial intelligence could create better outcomes for bowel cancer patients

Robots

UK drone startup sees.ai gets go ahead to trial beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) flights

Study explores inner life of AI with robot that ‘thinks’ out loud

The ANYmal inspection robot gives Spot some four-legged competition

Next generation of swimming biobots can self-train, showing striking speed and strength

Simple robots, smart algorithms

Cars

Elon Musk: Data recovered 'so far' shows Autopilot not enabled in Houston crash

Tesla Autopilot 'easily tricked' by Consumer Reports in bizarre test

This Tesla analyst just destroyed the Consumer Reports self-driving trick test

NC driverless shuttle has a new mission at Kitty Hawk’s Wright Brothers Memorial

Driverless shuttles will soon zip tourists through Yellowstone. How do they work?

Self-propelling self-navigating vehicles a step closer

Hardware

Combining light, superconductors could boost AI capabilities

Brain-on-a-chip would need little training

Brains

Mice master complex thinking with a remarkable capacity for abstraction

Know your ally: Cooperative male dolphins can tell who's on their team

Travel paths of primates show how their minds work

From individual receptors toward whole-brain function

You don't 'think like' a man or woman: Brain studies weaken evidence for neurological sex differences

Sexual receptivity and rejection may be orchestrated by the same brain region

Value and neural representations during goal-directed behavior

Shedding light on the robustness of short-term memory during distractions

How we know whether and when to pay attention

Scientists reveal origin of neuronal diversity in hypothalamus

Tiny implantable tool for light-sheet imaging of brain activity

Fast brainwave oscillations identify and localize epileptic brain