AI News & Trends, Nov. 14, 2020

 Health Care

Wired: The US Government Will Pay Doctors to Use These AI Algorithms: The artificial intelligence programs can diagnose eye disease in diabetics and complications in stroke patients

Viz.ai has a program that will diagnosis hemorrhaging of the brain on CT scan.  Digital Diagnostics has software that helps diagnosed diabetic retinopathy.

Google Cloud: Healthcare gets more productive with new industry-specific AI tools

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Companion Androids

Psychology Today: The Age of Sex Robots: the pros and cons in this emerging sexual age

A "a potentially satisfying relationship with a robotic partner," or for couples "an act of infidelity"?

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Automated Vehicles

Wired: Split-Second ‘Phantom’ Images Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot: researchers found they could stop a Tesla by flashing a few frames of a stop sign for less than half a second on an internet-connected billboard

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Deep Learning

ZDNet: What's next for AI: Gary Marcus talks about the journey toward robust artificial intelligence

ZDNet: C3.ai, machine learning startup backed by software pioneer Tom Siebel, files for IPO: the software-as-a-service company that has been using masses of GPUs to run deep learning programs plans to list under the ticker “AI.”

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Military

AXIOS: The military is calling in AI for support

This week, Armenia accepted a cease-fire with its neighbor Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh. "Azerbaijan dominated the conflict in part thanks to the ability of its fleets of cheap, armed drones to destroy Armenia's tanks."

Anduril's website describes its military drone: "Ghost 4 is an autonomous VTOL [vertical take-off and landing] sUAS [small unmanned aircraft system, typically under 55 lbs.] that operates on the Lattice AI platform. Ghost 4 is modular, man-portable, waterproof, and combines long endurance, high payload capacity and a near-silent acoustic signature for a wide variety of mission capabilities."

Axios: Anduril is a "young Silicon Valley startup backed by Peter Thiel and co-founded by Palmer Luckey that focuses on defense — showed off its Lattice software system, which processes sensor data through machine-learning algorithms to automatically identify and track targets like an incoming cruise missile."

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Work Automation/Ethics

Wired: 6 Sci-Fi Writers Imagine the Beguiling, Troubling Future of Work, The Future of Work: ‘Work Ethics,’ by Yudhanjaya Wijeratne