AI, ML, Robots and Brains (28.10. - 3.11.2019)

Society

As AI joins battlefield, Pentagon seeks ethicist

Facial recognition software has a gender problem

Surviving the first ‘deepfake’ election: Three questions

Behind those headlines: Don't believe claims robots threaten half our jobs

Reddit’s automoderator is the future of the internet, and deeply imperfect

Algorithms

Deep neural network generates realistic character-scene interactions

New AI deep learning model allows earlier, more accurate ozone warnings

AI reveals nature of RNA-protein interactions

Removing human bias from predictive modeling

Artificial networks shed light on human face recognition

Bellevue startup uses artificial intelligence to help English learners' pronunciation

This AI birdwatcher lets you 'see' through the eyes of a machine

Why music makes us feel, according to AI

Agriculture of the future: Neural networks have learned to predict plant growth

DeepMind’s AI has now outcompeted nearly all human players at StarCraft II

Health

AI outperforms clinicians' judgment in triaging postoperative patients for intensive care

Breast cancer: AI predicts which pre-malignant breast lesions will progress to advanced cancer

Machine learning leads to novel way to track tremor severity in Parkinson's patients

Artificial intelligence learns muscle anatomy in CT images

Robots

Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping: New control system may enable humanoid robots to do heavy lifting and other physically demanding tasks

How WildTrack Uses AI and Drones to Track Wildlife

Learning from mistakes and transferable skills -- the attributes for a worker robot

Cars

Enabling autonomous vehicles to see around corners

Teaching cars to drive with foresight

I rode in one of Zoox's self-driving cars in San Francisco — and it was more comfortable than the Uber and Lyft I took to and from the airport

Brains

Ground-breaking work improves understanding of brain function

Faith, truth and forgiveness: How your brain processes abstract thoughts

Chicks born with ability to distinguish and avoid different dangers

Name that tune: Brain takes just 100 to 300 milliseconds to recognize familiar music

Coordinated brain activation supports spatial learning and decision-making

Macaques' stone tool use varies despite same environment

Allen Institute maps out a high-resolution ‘org chart’ for connections in the brain

Delayed neural communication may underlie anticipatory behaviors

New research explains why people with Down syndrome have spatial memory problems

People with autism have a more symmetrical brain

After mastering a movement, mice may stop relying on primary motor cortex

IT links (28.10. - 3.11.2019)

Comparing Angular.js and growing Vue.js

I am really looking forward for this - Better default NullPointerException messages

Best practices for AWS Lambdas, and don’t Build Your Lambda Function Application in Java

Reading text from image in Python with PyTessaract and OpenCV

And text from PDF files via AWS Textract

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (16. - 22.9.2019)

Society

Study: Americans would rather drive themselves than have an autonomous vehicle drive them

New algorithm can distinguish cyberbullies from normal Twitter users with 90% accuracy

Deepfakes could anonymize people in videos while keeping their personality

CBC's chat bot helps you spot 'fake news' — and avoid spreading it

The world’s top deepfake artist: ‘Wow, this is developing more rapidly than I thought.’

A facial recognition ban is coming to the US, says an AI policy advisor

India Is Planning a Huge China-Style Facial Recognition Program

The race to create a perfect lie detector, and the dangers of succeeding

‘Nerd,’ ‘Nonsmoker,’ ‘Wrongdoer’: How Might A.I. Label You?

Algorithms

Unsupervised data to content transformation with histogram-matching cycle-consistent generative adversarial networks

ARIEL exoplanet mission celebrates machine learning challenge and citizen science launch

AI learned to use tools after nearly 500 million games of hide and seek

AI-guided robotics enable automation of complex synthetic biological molecules

Team uses machine learning to help tell which wildfires will burn out of control

Artificial intelligence probes dark matter in the universe

AI helps reduce Amazon hydropower dams' carbon footprint

Facial recognition algorithms can be deployed to hunt for dark matter

This Picasso painting had never been seen before. Until a neural network painted it

Deep learning application able to predict El Niño events up to 18 months in advance

Health

Deep learning optoacoustic tomography with sparse data

Robots

Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves

Look out, invasive species: The robots are coming

Shape-shifting robot built from 'smarticles' shows new locomotion strategy

UVA engineering-led team unveils 'Tunabot,' first robotic fish to keep pace with a tuna

Drone delivers shark warning to surfer

Cars

Tesla to support in-car Autopilot video tutorials in Version 10 software update

Tesla "Smart" Summon will be available on older Model S and Model X with Hardware 2.0

Brains

The sleep neuron in threadworms is also a stop neuron

Brain may not need body movements to learn virtual spaces

Brain-computer interfaces without the mess

Learning to read boosts the visual brain

The brain may actively forget during dream sleep

REM sleep–active MCH neurons are involved in forgetting hippocampus-dependent memories

Neurological signals from the spinal cord surprise scientists

Study finds hub linking movement and motivation in the brain

Evolution of learning is key to better artificial intelligence

Why is the brain disturbed by harsh sounds?

Scientists Identify Neurons That Help the Brain Forget

Hub linking movement and motivation in brain identified

Are brain implants the future of thinking?

IT links (16. - 22.9.2019)

Three articles related to new JDK 13:

• Definitive Guide To Java 13
• What is new in Java 13
• 81 New Features and APIs in JDK 13

Changing Spring Boot app during runtime:

• How to Reload Changes Without Restarting the Server?
• Changing the Logging Level at the Runtime

Tests:

• Good summary - 22 Reasons Why Test Automation Fails For Your Web Application
• Decreased code coverage - always problem?

And two more articles:

• AWS EC2 Instances with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPUs
• Replacing jQuery with VueJS

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (9. - 15.9.2019)

Society

'Neural revolution': Royal Society calls for inquiry into new wave of brain implants

Kids are surrounded by AI. They should know how it works

China and the U.S Are Fighting a Major Battle Over Killer Robots and the Future of AI

Algorithms

Artificial Intelligence speeds up photodynamics simulations

Chemists show how bias can crop up in machine learning algorithm results

Using machine learning for rewilding

'The Alexa of chemistry': Researchers on fast track to build open network

Health

Next-gen Siri may be able to have ‘back and forth’ conversations about health issues

AI neural network detects heart failure from single heartbeat

Machine learning improves the diagnosis of patients with head and neck cancers

Predicting risk of heart failure for diabetes patients with help from machine learning

Robots

'Flying fish' robot can propel itself out of water and glide through the air

Soft-bodied swimming robot uses only light for power and steering

Meet Rudy, the high-wire robot that could be N.L.'s next big invention

Nerve-like 'optical lace' gives robots a human touch

A robot with a firm yet gentle grasp

Cars

Robocar challenges Tesla to race after Model S sets record at Laguna Seca

Hardware

In situ training of feed-forward and recurrent convolutional memristor networks

Introducing quantum convolutional neural networks

Benchmarks for progress in neuromorphic computing

Fully portable and wireless universal brain–machine interfaces enabled by flexible scalp electronics and deep learning algorithm

First Earth observation satellite with AI ready for launch

Brain-inspired computing could tackle big problems in a small way

Brains

Sound-shape associations depend on early visual experiences

Watching music move through the brain

How brain rhythms organize our visual perception

Studying vision in pitch-darkness shines light on how a mammal's brain drives behavior

The birth of vision, from the retina to the brain

Study shows bee brains process positive and negative experiences differently

New study points to universal code in our brains for what we find beautiful

Discovery concerning the nervous system overturns a previous theory

New insights into how astrocytes help the brain process information

IT links (9. - 15.9.2019)

With release of JDK 13, work on JDK 14 has started

September AWS Online Tech Talks with three webinars related to machine learning

Brief overview of Java frameworks and libraries for testing, containing also help more complex checks

Moving legacy Spring app to run under Spring Boot

@SpringBootConfiguration annotation

Good reminder of SOLID principles

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (2. - 8.9.2019)

Society

Automated text analysis: The next frontier of marketing innovation

An AI app that turns you into a movie star has risked the privacy of millions

Emotion-reading algorithms cannot predict intentions via facial expressions

Facebook is making its own AI deepfakes to head off a disinformation disaster

White House lists security tech, AI and space among R&D priorities

The global landscape of AI ethics guidelines

Criminal artificial intelligence may be coming for your money: Don Pittis

Why should you care about AI used for hiring?

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence used to recognize primate faces in the wild

Artificial intelligence helps to predict hybrid nanoparticle structures

Boltzmann generators: Sampling equilibrium states of many-body systems with deep learning

Scientists develop a deep learning method to solve a fundamental problem in statistical physics

Novel math could bring machine learning to the next level

Health

AI learns complex gene-disease patterns

AI learns the language of chemistry to predict how to make medicines

A breakthrough in imaginative AI with experimental validation to accelerate drug discovery

New AI technology for advanced heart attack prediction

An AI system identified a potential new drug in just 46 days

Ageing research to accelerate with experimental validation in AI-powered drug discovery

Cars

Video of Tesla in full self-driving mode gives us a glimpse into the future of travel

Brains

The brain processes words placed on the right side of a screen more quickly

Discovery of neuronal ensemble activities that is orchestrated to represent one memory

How the limits of the mind shape human language

How humans have shaped dogs' brains

How our brain filters sounds

How do we get so many different types of neurons in our brain?

Seeing memories being made

IT links (2. - 8.9.2019)

At the beginning - just reminder - JDK 13 will come in couple of days and here is a short list of  new features

Java copy constructor vs clone

Price of AWS EFS for infrequent access was reduced

And another players in the world of cloud providers

17 tips for writing effective test cases

And what are the most important types of logs to write?

IT links (15. - 21.7.2019)

New round of AWS Online Tech Talks - for July

Multiple ways how to access current directory in Java

The first signs of JDK 14 are starting to appear

Recent Java trends according to InfoQ

And how to enable preview features in Java?

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (1. - 7.7.2019)

Society

Building trust in artificial intelligence

Rise of the robots: Coming to a first-year Intro to Journalism class near you

Automated forklifts elevate firms' profit hopes

'Difficulties on the road to AI': man pours water on Baidu chief at conference

London police’s face recognition system gets it wrong 81% of the time

Wimbledon reworks AI tech to reduce bias in game highlights

James Lovelock: 'AI is a new form of life'

When convenience meets surveillance: AI at the corner store

Algorithms

Automated de novo molecular design by hybrid machine intelligence and rule-driven chemical synthesis

Machine detection of human-object interaction in images and videos

Using artificial intelligence to better predict severe weather

The answer to forecasting Bitcoin may lie in artificial intelligence

Computer scientists predict lightning and thunder with the help of artificial intelligence

Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages

Researchers cast neural nets to simulate molecular motion

Deep-CEE: The AI deep learning tool helping astronomers explore deep space

Successful automatic landing with vision assisted navigation

With little training, machine-learning algorithms can uncover hidden scientific knowledge

AI-designed heat pumps consume less energy

Health

A new way to use the AI behind deepfakes could improve cancer diagnosis

Scientists claim to have developed world's first vaccine with artificial intelligence

Cardiologist Eric Topol: 'AI can restore the care in healthcare'

Robots

Sharing control with robots may make manufacturing safer, more efficient

Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce

How robots could help keep the lights on as climate change worsens

Cars

Are self-driving cars really the answer for older drivers?

Hardware

Waterproof artificial synapses for pattern recognition in organic environments

Portable polarization-sensitive camera could be used in machine vision, autonomous vehicles, security and more

Brains

Scientists track the source of the 'Uncanny Valley' in the brain

Unraveling the brain's reward circuits

Sleep readies synapses for learning

Stored in Synapses: How Scientists Completed a Map of the Roundworm’s Brain

Columbia researchers controlled the behavior in a mouse's brain with single-cell precision

AI, ML, Robots and Brains (10.6. - 30.6.2019)

Society

Facebook’s AI system can speak with Bill Gates’s voice

Deepfakes have got Congress panicking. This is what it needs to do.

Deepfakes may be a useful tool for spies

Experts: Spy used AI-generated face to connect with targets

'Deepfakes' called new election threat, with no easy fix

Schiff Calls ‘Deepfakes’ a Nightmarish Threat to 2020 Elections

Identifying a fake picture online is harder than you might think

Facebook has promised to leave up a deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg

'Deepfakes' pose conundrum for Facebook, Zuckerberg says

Looking Closely at Deepfakes Helps Protect Against Them

Deepfakes of Canadian politicians emerge on YouTube

Why people will beat machines in recognizing speech for a long time

Too many businesses failing to properly embrace AI into processes, not reaping benefits

Should we tax robots? A debate.

Amazon speaks out in favor of regulating facial-recognition technology

Police cam maker nixes facial recognition deployment

How a century-old tech giant is making a comeback with AI

Using AI technology to prevent cyberbullying

A New Robot Questions How Creative AI and Machines Can Be

AI, robots, data software helping create new approach for planning cities of the future

US CEO hands Oxford University $189 million for AI studies

Here are 10 ways AI could help fight climate change

How humans and robots work side-by-side in Amazon fulfillment centers

New study suggests automation will not wipe out truck-driving jobs

The future of AI research is in Africa

Robots may care for you in old age—and your children will teach them

An AI app that “undressed” women shows how deepfakes harm the most vulnerable

San Francisco prosecutors turn to AI to reduce racial bias

Algorithms

Artificial intelligence-enhanced journalism offers a glimpse of the future of the knowledge economy

Researchers find connectivity more important that thought for specialized optimizing machines

Lettuce have it! Machine learning for cr-optimization

AI software reveals the inner workings of short-term memory

Machine behavior: A field of study to explore intelligent machines as independent agents

Translating university lectures in multiple languages

Artificial intelligence improves seismic analyses

Artificial intelligence sees construction site accidents before they happen

AI can tell when actors are kissing—and maybe when you are, too

Facebook has built stunning virtual spaces for its AI programs to explore

New AI system manages road infrastructure via Google Street View

Biological evolution inspires machine learning

Latest artificial intelligence research from China in Big Data

Adobe’s new AI tool can spot when a face has been Photoshopped

Detecting deepfakes by looking closely reveals a way to protect against them

Advancing AI for video: Startup launches powerful video processing platform

Predictive AI is the newest weapon in the battle to protect endangered animals

Machine learning is about to revolutionize the study of ancient games

Researchers develop 'vaccine' against attacks on machine learning

Machine learning unlocks mysteries of quantum physics

The intersection of vision and language

A new set of images that fool AI could help make it more hacker-proof

Neural networks taught to recognize similar objects on videos without accuracy degradation

Protecting emergency personnel: Platform shows potential of AI in hazardous environments

Setting the standard for machine learning

Machine learning reveals how strongly interacting electrons behave at atomic level

The first AI universe sim is fast and accurate -- and its creators don't know how it works

Algorithm designed to map universe, solve mysteries

Health

AI is getting smarter and creepier, and it can even predict when a person will die

Machine learning approach for low-dose CT imaging yields superior results

The 'AI turn' for digital health: A futuristic view

The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds 'sound' words predict psychosis

Scientists use machine learning to improve gut disease diagnosis: Machines use Google-type algorithms on biopsy images to help children get treatment faster

'Alexa, monitor my heart': Researchers develop first contactless cardiac arrest AI system for smart speakers

Artificial intelligence identifies 'kissing bugs' that spread Chagas disease

From one brain scan, more information for medical artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence could be 'game changer' in detecting, managing Alzheimer's disease

Artificial intelligence improves heart attack risk assessment

Machine learning makes a better Luke Skywalker hand

New AI tool captures top players' strategies in RNA video game

Robots

Anyone can program this cheap robot arm in just 15 minutes

Training robots to relieve chronic pain

The Next Generation of Robots Will Be Powered By Artificial Intelligence: Eye on A.I.

New energy-efficient algorithm keeps UAV swarms helping longer

The Latest: Airbus is ready for autonomous planes; are you?

Now your phone can become a robot that does the boring work

The first robot for scrubbing dishes will check each plate for dirt

Game of drones: Airports rally firms to battle threat from above

Robot traps ball without coding

'Robot blood' powers machines for lengthy tasks

Stanford researchers teach robots what humans want

Sandia's crawling robots, drones detect damage to save wind blades

For less than $200, engineering students built a realistic robotic fish

Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children

Tesco Working on Cashierless Stores as Competition With Amazon Heats Up

If you did the Mannequin Challenge, you are now advancing robotics research

A solar-powered robot bee shows how insect drones may take flight

Soft robots for all

Robot arm tastes with engineered bacteria

Safe, low-cost, modular, self-programming robots

Artificial intelligence controls robotic arm to pack boxes and cut costs

Cars

Driverless cars are going to disrupt the airline industry

As cars become increasingly driverless, people are already seeking analogue motoring experiences

Algorithm tells robots where nearby humans are headed

Florida law to allow autonomous cars—when they're ready

What's in a name? When it comes to trusting self-driving technology, a lot

Uber Trying to Steer Its Vision of Flying Cars Though Regulators

Uber will test unmanned aircraft at Fort Worth Alliance Airport's new technology zone

Uber, Volvo Cars launching new self-driving vehicle

Uber buys AI firm to advance push on autonomous cars

Fiat Chrysler taps Aurora for self-driving commercial vehicles

VW drops partnership with US self-driving car firm Aurora

Tesla's full self-driving technology is 'undervalued,' says Morgan Stanley

Tesla Arcade is priming us for the self-driving future, we just don't know it yet

Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology

Ford opens Israel tech lab in move toward driverless cars

Walmart’s Kickstarting a $1 Trillion Driverless Delivery Market

Apple buys self-driving car startup Drive.ai

Apple’s Silence Hurts Efforts to Take Drivers Out of Cars

Hardware

Bill Gates just backed a chip startup that uses light to turbocharge AI

A new chip lets robots “imagine” their actions before they make a move

The world’s best supercomputers are being updated to run AI software faster

Brains

How the brain changes when mastering a new skill: Research reveals new neural activity patterns that emerge with long-term learning

Reaching and grasping -- Learning fine motor coordination changes the brain

Learning constrains further learning, neuroscientists find

Your nose knows when it comes to stronger memories

Learning from experience is all in the timing

Hidden brain signals behind working memory

Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch

Brain structure determines individual differences regarding music sensitivity

Small cluster of neurons is off-on switch for mouse songs

Poison dart frog brains can hold a mental map

Brain signals can reveal how “awake” a fly’s brain is

Bats' brains sync when they socialize

Fruit bats can transform echoes into images

Researchers model how octopus arms make decisions (+ video)

Color and orientation are jointly coded and spatially organized in primate primary visual cortex

What squid neurons and an octopus on ecstasy can teach us about ourselves

Snails show that variety is the key to success if you want to remember more

Frustrated fish give up thanks to glia, not just neurons

Pigs help scientists understand human brain

Scientists identify a novel neural circuit mediating visually evoked innate defensive responses

Breakthrough in understanding how human eyes process 3D motion

Going the distance: Brain cells for 3D vision discovered

Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape

Rules of brain architecture revealed in large study of neuron shape & electrophysiology

Structural development of the brain

Studying the human brain through craniovascular traits

Understanding brain activity when you name what you see

Scientists closer to unraveling mechanisms of speech processing in the brain

'Goldilocks' neurons promote REM sleep

Researchers identify new hunger pathway in the brain

Culture shapes how we learn to reason?

Babies can learn link between language and ethnicity, study suggests

Mood neurons mature during adolescence

How the brain helps us make good decisions -- and bad ones

IT links (17.6. - 23.6.2019)

Two articles from JetBrains:

The state of developer ecosystem 2019 - Java

List of security vulnerabilities in JetBrains products

And another security issue - in official OpenJDK Docker images

Small reminder - Java Platform Module System - unfortunatelly there was not chance yet to use it

jcmd utility adds possibility to watch JVM events

Experience with Java apps running with Graal VM

And new GA version of Graal VM was released

Interesting summary of experience with TDD

IT links (10.6. - 16.6.2019)

• It is good to realize in how many frameworks Java Reflection API is used

• IntelliJ IDEA plugin for Snyk vulnerability detection

• Javalin 3.0.0 was released

• New AWS recommendation system - Amazon Personalize