[Dwelling week] Microsoft's Apples line up to open a big scientist inventing a nightmare AI

[PConline Info] Welcome to PConline for a week! For the small editors of major technology media, the past week is a week of collapse. Because Microsoft and Apple have held two heavyweight conferences. On the evening of October 26th, Beijing time, Microsoft released a very stunning one machine, Surface Studio. Needless to say, the configuration is the highest level that you can buy but may not be able to afford. Microsoft said that the all-in-one LCD monitor is the thinnest on the market, only 12.5 mm. In addition, the screen can be laid down. Designers who are said to be overweight can do the design work. Speaking of designers, what makes them more interested is the following accessory called Surface Dial, which can be selected by rotating the color ring. Compared with these two things, Surface book can only be regarded as a small upgrade. I don’t know if it’s an appointment. One day later, Apple didn’t bring us a one-machine update at the press conference. Although the new MacBook Pro has no bright spots in configuration, Touch Bar is for designers and film editors. It is another artifact. Although the two companies are staggering each other in their heavy head products, one thing is the same, that is, the prices of these things are very touching. At the dawn of Halloween, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched a scary AI - nightmare machine. Its principle is to let computers generate horror pictures through various algorithms. The computer then judges the degree of horror based on the user's feedback and continues to learn. The ultimate goal is to scare your feet. However, from the results, the scary level of this AI still needs to be improved. Recently, the XPrize Foundation, which collaborated with Google on the robotic moon landing, has released the latest challenge in New Delhi, India. If you can invent equipment that can recover at least 2,000 liters of water from the air every day, you can get $1.75 million. In fact, the main technical means to extract water from the air is to use desiccant or pressurization. However, the challenge is that the cost of obtaining every liter of water cannot exceed 2 cents. Domestic Internet car rental companies are becoming more and more like taxi companies, while foreign countries are doing other things. According to foreign media reports, on the morning of the 20th of this month, an 18-wheel truck loaded with 50,000 cans of beer opened the road. Importantly, this big truck is unmanned! The truck’s autonomous driving technology comes from Otto, which was just acquired by Uber. The founder of Otto said that as the technology matures, autopilot can replace the hard-working truck driver. However, most people may be more interested in technologies that can replace older drivers. Speaking of Uber, on October 27, Uber released a white paper detailing a project concerning flying cars. It is reported that the flying speed of a flying car is about 240 km/h, and one charge can support 160 km of flying. More stimulating, Uber also said that their aircraft cars will use autonomous control to provide services, that is to say, should be like Mobike, at any time on the roadside scan code ride. Of course, all these are foreign Ubers, and Uber China, after being merged with Didi, has been separated from Uber Global and has gradually taken over from Uber China's application upgrade. On October 26th, the biggest revision release since Didi took over, cancelled the limousine option. Adds the same dialog function as Didi, but in other respects, it also becomes more and more like a drip, for example, you can send a red envelope to your WeChat friends at the end of the journey. In other respects, you don't need to mention it. Just open your mobile phone and you will know it. If Uber is becoming more and more Google, then it should be more and more of Baidu.