Waymo One is now available to all customers anywhere in LA county, which is 80 square miles. The company has dropped the waitlist for area residents. Now LA residents will get to experience sitting in endless traffic with a series of cameras and navigational algos leading the way instead of a person. This expanded service starts today and it offers "fully autonomous rides" at any time of the day or night. Let's hear it for some drunken late night bonding with an algorithm.

Apple is set to launch its new iOS 18.1 that will include the long-awaited AI feature and several security fixes for iPhones running on the previous version. CEO Tim Cook has touted Apple Intelligence as'a new chapter of innovation,' focusing on'generative' AI models that enable users to create text or images from prompts. The system will have the ability to create'Genmojis,' new emoji characters based on text prompts in iMessage, edit photos and include a revamped Siri with better conversational skills. The new iOS 18 system is set to hit smartphones at 1pm ET, but only the iPhone 16 family and high-end 15 devices support Apple Intelligence. There is also a waitlist for the AI feature and users can claim their spot after downloading the update.

Apple's groundbreaking new feature is slated to launch next week, but iPhone users hoping to access the full suite of new AI features will have to get in line. Due to potentially high demand, people will need to join a waitlist before they can install Apple Intelligence that will be available when iOS 18.1 hits smartphones on October 28. But tech experts have found a beta version of the software was made available on Monday, which opens the queue earlier. The tech giant usually releases a beta of its upcoming iOS updates to let developers spot bugs before the final version rolls out. Users can see if they can download iOS 18.1 RC beta in Settings, which will then create a new option for Apple Intelligence & Siri where they can claim their spot.

The development of Large Language Models (LLMs) often confronts challenges stemming from the heavy reliance on human annotators in the reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) framework, or the frequent and costly external queries tied to the self-instruct paradigm. In this work, we pivot to Reinforcement Learning (RL) -- but with a twist. Diverging from the typical RLHF, which refines LLMs following instruction data training, we use RL to directly generate the foundational instruction dataset that alone suffices for fine-tuning. Our method, TeaMs-RL, uses a suite of textual operations and rules, prioritizing the diversification of training datasets. It facilitates the generation of high-quality data without excessive reliance on external advanced models, paving the way for a single fine-tuning step and negating the need for subsequent RLHF stages. Our findings highlight key advantages of our approach: reduced need for human involvement and fewer model queries (only $5.73\%$ of WizardLM's total), along with enhanced capabilities of LLMs in crafting and comprehending complex instructions compared to strong baselines, and substantially improved model privacy protection.

Could artificial intelligence predict when your aging loved one will need long-term care? Approximately 70% of adults aged 65 years and older will require long-term care at some point in their lifetime, statistics show -- and the time leading up to that can be fraught with uncertainty. One California company is looking to change that with its new AI platform called Waterlily. The founder and CEO, Lily Vittayarukskul, started the platform after her own personal struggles with family caregiving. "I had to navigate long-term care in my family as a teenager and it shaped my view on the importance of preparing for these crises," she told Fox News Digital.

Cruise has been testing its self-driving vehicles in Houston since May, and it started giving employees, along with select friends and family members, fully driverless rides in August. Now, it's offering the public the chance to catch a ride to their destinations on robotaxis with no drivers behind the wheel. The company is now onboarding Houston residents who signed up for its waitlist, and it's also encouraging those who've yet to do so to visit its website and send in a request for access. Those who do get in early will be able to hail a driverless ride through its app for a flat fare of $5 for a limited time. Initially, Cruise will have the authority to operate seven days a week from 9PM to 6AM only in Downtown, Midtown, East Downtown, Montrose, Hyde Park and River Oaks neighborhoods.

Cruise has finally launched an Android app for ridehailing, giving potential customers in San Francisco the option to call one of its robotaxis even if they're not iPhone users. The self-driving car company told Engadget that 20 percent of its waitlisters are on Android, and an app for the platform is one of people's most-requested updates on social media. Cruise's new Android app will come with all the upgrades the iOS app has received since it launched, including the ability to drop a moveable pin on the map by long pressing on the screen. The company recently started operating in all areas of San Francisco 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Employees have been able to hail robotaxi rides from across the city at all hours for months, but Cruise opened daytime rides to public "power users" in specific portions of the city back in April.

But according to HP, the Victus 16-e1000 includes 8-32GB of RAM and between 256GB and 1TB of storage, not 8.2TB. And yet, having reviewed an earlier Victus, I'd agree with the other points. Again, I do like the fact that the new AI-powered Google search tries to answer the question. I still found myself wishing for the richness and the thoughtfulness of well, humans. In asking Google to compare Maui and Oahu, I found this response to be more thoughtful, entertaining, and knowledgeable. Google specifically architected Google Search not to display personality, unlike Bing. Google also refuses to commit to picking one choice over another.

Advocates for artificial intelligence say there have been no widespread reports of cheating or harmful content in classrooms that have implemented AI learning for kids. Bard is one of the newest artificial intelligence chatbots. The AI chatbot, created by Google, was released in March 2023, after an initial announcement in February. The software was released to a limited amount of users for testing. The chatbot comes on the heels of the release of one of its major competitors, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and has very similar functions to that model.

Google's search engine has remained relatively unchanged for decades. With the advent of AI, look for that to change--and you can test the new-look Search today. Google Search's familiar interface, with a search box and a list of responses, is being overhauled to look more like Microsoft Bing's chatbot now does, with AI stepping in to provide supplementary information it never offered before. Google is trying something a bit different with its updated search engine, bringing in recommendations as well as facts. Searching for a "good bike for a 5 mile route with hills," will interpret that result with bikes with a good suspension and tires, built on Google's Shopping graph.