AI, ML, Robots and Brains (10.5. - 16.5.2021)

Society

European AI needs strategic leadership, not overregulation

If you don't want robotic dogs patrolling the streets, consider CCOPS legislation

How AIs ask for personal information is important for gaining user trust

We need to design distrust into AI systems to make them safer

Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’ and nature books

Algorithms

Teaching AIs forgetfulness could make them better at their jobs

Quantum machine learning hits a limit

Making AI algorithms show their work

Could AI help recover energy and fresh water from municipal wastewater?

IBM's CodeNet dataset can teach AI to translate computer languages

Language models like GPT-3 could herald a new type of search engine

Facebook has trained an AI to treat irrelevant data like spoiled milk

How social media and AI enable companies to track brand reputations in real-time

'Grand Theft Auto V' mod adds uncanny photorealism through AI

AI learns to type on a phone like humans

Product design gets an AI makeover

Violinmaking meets artificial intelligence

Lasers, levitation and machine learning make better heat-resistant materials

Artificial intelligence identifies the tiger mosquito from photos in the Mosquito Alert

Health

A human in the loop in surgery automation

This system helps robots better navigate emergency rooms

Eliminating bias from healthcare AI critical to improve health equity

Medical artificial intelligence tools can work effectively for different locations, populations

Patients may not take advice from AI doctors who know their names

AI analytics predict COVID-19 patients' daily trajectory in UK intensive care

Artificial intelligence tool uses chest X-ray to differentiate worst cases of COVID-19

Male infertility scoring using AI-assisted image classification requiring no programming

AI helps predict treatment outcomes for patients with diseased dental implants

Research harnesses AI to fight breast cancer

Integrating medical imaging and cancer biology with deep neural networks

Researchers use AI to identify a new bone shape measure in knee osteoarthritis

Simultaneous deep generative modelling and clustering of single-cell genomic data

Robots

UK postal service tests autonomous drone deliveries to remote islands

Artificial Intelligence and drones will help pin down Sosnovsky's hogweed

The fulfilling world of warehouse robotics

Discovering candidate for reflex network of walking cats: Understanding animals with robots

Cars

Lidar startup Innovusion closes $64M round led by Temasek

Waymo and Cruise may soon offer autonomous rides and deliveries in California

Waymo had to rescue an autonomous van that was confused by safety cones

Volkswagen targets fully autonomous electric taxi vans by 2025

Brains

Brain research gets a boost from mosquitos

Fruit flies and mosquitos are 'brainier' than most people suspect, say scientists

Zebrafish brain shows that new neurons are formed in the brain in a coordinated manner

Songbird neurons for advanced cognition mirror the physiology of mammalian counterparts

Researchers move one step closer to understanding how the brain processes multiple conversations at once

Study shows how our brains sync hearing with vision

A new understanding of how the human brain controls the hands

Brain regions involved in vision also encode how to hold tools

Research team reads minds to understand human tool use

New research sheds light on the brain's GPS system

For the brain, timing is everything

Neurons in brain's "zona incerta" drive curiosity in mice

Empathic and altruistic or cold and individualistic: our brains reveal the truth

Remapping and realignment in the hippocampal formation predict context-dependent spatial behavior

New study reveals where memories of familiar places are stored in the brain

Researchers observe new complexity of traveling brain waves in memory circuits

Study reveals structure of key receptors involved in memory and learning

How imperfect memory causes poor choices

The brain game: What causes engagement and addiction to video games?

Researchers use arcuate organoids to study development and disease of the hypothalamus

Designer alterations to brain cells reduce anxiety in monkeys, hold promise for humans

Neuroimaging discovers alterations in brain circuits that contribute to alcohol addiction

Diagramming the brain with colorful connections

Thin-film electrodes reveal key insight into human brain activity