The ‘another factor’ introduced by Apple at its Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC) this 12 months was the trade’s worst-kept secret. The Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, the tech large’s gamble on making combined actuality headsets a factor, has obtained a combined reception. A lot of the concern has centered on the eye-watering $3,499 price.

However there’s an even bigger drawback: Whether or not there’ll be sufficient apps obtainable to make the price of the system value it. It’s an actual problem to revamp apps for a wholly new interface—and builders are involved. Learn the total story.

—Chris Stokel-Walker

To keep away from AI doom, study from nuclear security

For the previous few weeks, the AI discourse has been dominated by those that assume we may develop an artificial-intelligence system that can someday develop into so highly effective it’s going to wipe out humanity.

So how do firms themselves suggest we keep away from AI spoil? One proposed resolution comes from a brand new paper by DeepMind et al that means that AI builders ought to consider a mannequin’s potential to trigger “excessive” dangers earlier than even beginning any coaching.

The method may assist builders determine whether or not it’s too dangerous to proceed. However probably it’d be extra useful for the AI sector to attract classes from a subject that is aware of a factor or two about very actual existential threats—security analysis and danger mitigation round nuclear weapons.

—Melissa Heikkilä

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