Chapter 6, RuntimeError: Input type and weight type should be the same

I was reading Chapter 6 and encounter this error:
RuntimeError: Input type (torch.cuda.FloatTensor) and weight type (torch.FloatTensor) should be the same
This is caused by the following code:

learn = cnn_learner(dls, resnet18)
x,y = dls.train.one_batch()
activs = learn.model(x)             <------- This line throw the error
activs.shape 

I find the updated version of fastbook and found that the code is updated as follow:

learn = cnn_learner(dls, resnet18)
x,y = to_cpu(dls.train.one_batch())
activs = learn.model(x)      
activs.shape 

What is the new to_cpu() doing?
I looked up the documentation and it said: Recursively map lists of tensors in b to the cpu.
What does that mean?
I tried to do x? in the old version and it said

Type:        TensorImage
String form:
TensorImage([[[[ 0.9817,  0.9817,  0.9817,  ...,  1.0159,  1.0159,  1.0159],
           [ 0.9817,  <...> 622],
           [ 0.3742,  0.3916,  0.3742,  ...,  0.8971,  0.7751,  0.5834]]]], device='cuda:0')

Since there’s a device=cuda, that means the older version tensor x is in the GPU?
Adding to_cpu() will remove that field in the x? output.
Also, which one is the weight type that have (torch.FloatTensor)??
Is it the weight/parameters in resnet18?

Additional question, How do I update my version of fastbook in paperspace gradient to the lastest version in github?