AI, ML, Robots and Brains (17.5. - 23.5.2021)

Society

Researchers call for bias-free artificial intelligence

Evolving to a more equitable AI

The race to understand the thrilling, dangerous world of language AI

Embracing the rapid pace of AI

RAI's certification process aims to prevent AIs from turning into HALs

Amazon extends ban on police use of its facial recognition software

We could see federal regulation on face recognition as early as next week

Washington DC dismantles its secretive facial recognition system

‘Some people feel threatened’: face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist

Algorithms

Tesla shares scooped up by AI-powered fund with exceptional track record

Research community dynamics behind popular AI benchmarks

Collective intelligence can be predicted and quantified, new study finds

Envisioning safer cities with AI

Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, a new managed machine learning platform

Google's LaMDA makes conversations with AIs more conversational

Google Photos gives users more control over AI-powered Memories

Google and Qualcomm are making neural network API updates easier on Android

Facebook's latest AI can learn speech without human transcriptions

Microsoft used AI to generate a never-ending remix of Warren Hue's new song

Forecast nabs $19M for its AI-based approach to project management and resource planning

Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform

Researchers use 'hole-y' math and machine learning to study cellular self-assembly

New AI-based tool can find rare cell populations in large single-cell datasets

AI searched for single-atom-alloy catalysts, found 200 promising candidates

Archaeologists teach computers to sort ancient pottery

Artificial intelligence predicts river water quality with weather data

NASA AI technology could speed up fault diagnosis process in spacecraft

Health

New medical image fusion method draws on deep learning to improve patient outcomes

Researchers use AI to analyze patient satisfaction

AI-enabled EKGs find difference between numerical age and biological age significantly affects health

Team builds personal AI for teaching kids living on autistic spectrum

Machine learning for predicting the best treatment for vesicoureteral reflux in kids

AI predicts lung cancer risk

Deep learning enables dual screening for cancer and cardiovascular disease

Machine learning (AI) accurately predicts cardiac arrest risk

Google's latest AI tool may help identify common skin conditions

Robots

Aevum is building a modular autonomous drone for space and terrestrial deliveries

Watch a 'blind' bipedal robot successfully navigate stairs

Slicing up pizza robots

An automated box on wheels -- with personality

The Navy sub commanded by artificial intelligence

Cars

A LiDAR device the size of a finger available

The environmental trade-offs of autonomous vehicles

California places Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' under review

Waymo self-driving taxi confused by traffic cones flees help

Correction: Waymo-Driverless Ride-Hailing story

Chinese startup Pony.ai can now test driverless vehicles in three California cities

The environmental trade-offs of autonomous vehicles

Hardware

New material could create 'neurons' and 'synapses' for new computers

Google launches the next generation of its custom AI chips

Brains

Research suggests fly brains make predictions, possibly using universal design principles

The brain networks underlying imagination

What happens in the brain when we imagine the future?

Infants recognize rapid images, just like adults

Brain's memory center stays active during 'infantile amnesia'

Experience replay is associated with efficient nonlocal learning

Shootin1a—the missing link underlying learning and memory

Maintenance of self-renewal and proliferation of hippocampal neural stem cells during postnatal development

3D visualization of oxytocin and vasopressin circuits with unprecedented resolution

Synaptic transmission: Not a one-way street

New study identifies plasticity disparities between patients with brain malformation

Virtual brain bank could help us get the most out of brain donation