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While Apple continues (or doesn’t continue) to develop its plans for a self-driving automobile, the company is proposing an advanced high-end technology for an augmented reality (AR) display system that would generate a bunch of information onto a vehicle’s windshield.

In a U.S. Patent Office filing last week, Apple described a graphical overlay on the glass in front of the driver that would provide information about the real-time environment as well as data about objects in the distance — humans included — along with the vehicle’s speed, suspension and other factors.

The system, which may borrow on Apple’s science being employed in its soon-to-be-released Vision Pro headsets, would rely on a variety of sensors to collect information about the surrounding environment. This could include visible light cameras, various types of infrared cameras, as well as ultrasonic and light-based scanning devices for building up a three-dimensional picture of the car’s surroundings. The patent also mentions the use of geographical positioning devices and radar devices.

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Digital sociology explores the interplay between digital technology, social behaviors, and societal structures. As an emerging discipline, it delves into how online interactions, social media platforms, and digital tools shape and reflect cultural dynamics, personal identities, and group norms. Digital sociologists analyze trends in cyber communities, the implications of digital data collection, and the broader impact of the internet on social evolution.

In this age of rapid technological advancement — where we find ourselves in the midst of a Digital Revolution and most recently, in an AI Revolution, the fast-spinning changes in society require analysis and understanding. Digital sociology provides critical insights into the multifaceted relationship between technology and the fabric of society.

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Electronic music artist, generative AI enthusiast and on-off Elon Musk partner Claire “Grimes” Boucher seems to want to build bridges between the tech billionaire and the trans community he’s alienated so relentlesslly.

In a wide-ranging new interview with Wired, Boucher mentioned that she’d had a “big, long conversation” with her kids’ dad about “the trans thing,” and came to a similar conclusion as she made when publicly replying to one of his transphobic tweets: that bigotry isn’t in his “heart.”

“I was like, ‘I want to dissect why you’re so stressed about this,’” the artist, who also goes by the letter c, told the magazine. “Getting to the heart of what Elon says helps me get to the heart of what other people’s issues are, because it’s this über guy situation.”

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have transformed stem cells into insulin-producing cells. They used the CRISPR gene-editing tool to correct a defect that caused a form of diabetes, and implanted the cells into mice to reverse diabetes in the animals. Shown is a microscopic image of insulin-secreting beta cells (insulin is green) that were made from stem cells produced from the skin of a patient with Wolfram syndrome.

CRISPR corrects genetic defect so cells can normalize blood sugar.

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Welcome to our latest educational video, “The 9 AI Skills You Need NOW to Stay Ahead of 97% of People.” This video is designed for anyone eager to take a deep dive into the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Our goal is to provide you with the most essential AI skills needed to excel in this rapidly evolving field, keeping you ahead of the curve and well-positioned in the job market.

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New robotics research from Meta AI and Carnegie Mellon University Robotics — RoboAgent can acquire a wide diversity of non-trivial skills and generalize them to hundreds of diverse unseen scenarios — all with an order of magnitude less data than prior works in this space.

Additionally we’re open-sourcing RoboSet, a large, high-quality robotics dataset collected with commodity hardware, to support and accelerate open source research in robot learning.

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It sometimes presents incorrect steps to arrive at the answer, because it is designed to base conclusions on precedent. And a precedent based on a given data set is limited to the confines of the data set. This, says Microsoft, leads to “increased costs, memory, and computational overheads.”

AoT to the rescue. The algorithm evaluates whether the initial steps—” thoughts,” to use a word generally associated only with humans—are sound, thereby avoiding a situation where an early wrong “thought” snowballs into an absurd outcome.

Though not expressly stated by Microsoft, one can imagine that if AoT is what it’s cracked up to be, it might help mitigate the so-called AI “hallucinations”—the funny, alarming phenomenon whereby programs like ChatGPT spits out false information. In one of the more notorious examples, in May 2023, a lawyer named Stephen A. Schwartz admitted to “consulting” ChatGPT as a source when conducting research for a 10-page brief. The problem: The brief referred to several court decisions as legal precedents… that never existed.

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