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Artificially Intelligent Help for Planning Your Summer Vacation

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Like Google Maps, Apple’s Maps app offers mass transit and cycling directions to places if you’d like to skip taking a car. Credit… Apple For example, Citymapper, which covers most major cities in the United States, Europe and Asia, includes environmental impact statistics on some trips.

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First drive: US spec Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid; 83-86 MPGe with 16-17 mile EV range

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It quickly warms up the engine following a cold start, and at high load the water jacket reduces the temperature of the exhaust gas. Screen shot from the MMI showing some of the available e-tron statistics: 58% of this segment of the drive was completed in electric mode. Click to enlarge. Driver Assistance.

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

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Deep learning is a modern incarnation of the long-running trend in artificial intelligence that has been moving from streamlined systems based on expert knowledge toward flexible statistical models. For example, rule-based approaches to translating languages such as Urdu, Arabic, and Malay outperformed statistical ones—at first.

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Save $400 on Velotric T1 ST e-bike at $1,099, level 2 Tesla/EV charger starts from $449, more

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You can monitor, schedule, and adjust the power levels between 16A and 40A through the companion app, which also provides your energy usage and spending statistics as well, making this device a flexible solution for installations on electrical circuits of 50A. You can also go hands-free by connecting it to your Alexa or Google Assistant.

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Tesla 2024 Annual Shareholder Meeting transcript: June 13, 2024

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We design our manufacturing processes to use less water per vehicle than the industry average, and for the third year in a row, we power our Supercharger network with 100 percent renewable energy. So our vehicles are water efficient, energy efficient. Tesla is ahead of Google, Meta, anyone on real world software.

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Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

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The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google DeepMind’s Nicholas Carlini and the first author of this article (Gary Marcus). With Google Image search, you get back a link, not something represented as original artwork.

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