The ‘yet 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 big’s gamble on making blended actuality headsets a factor, has obtained a blended reception. Many of the concern has centered on the eye-watering $3,499 value.

However there’s a much bigger downside: Whether or not there’ll be sufficient apps out there to make the price of the system price it. It’s an actual problem to revamp apps for a completely 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 might develop an artificial-intelligence system that can at some point grow to be so highly effective it is going to wipe out humanity.

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

The method might 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 area that is aware of a factor or two about very actual existential threats—security analysis and threat mitigation round nuclear weapons.

—Melissa Heikkilä

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