A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses OpenAI Slashes the Cost of Using Its AI With a ‘Mini’ Model | WIRED (Thursday, July 18, 2024) “With competing models—including many free ones—flooding the market, OpenAI is announcing a cheaper way to use its AI.” AI in…
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Notable and Interesting Recent AI News, Articles, and Papers for Thursday, July 18, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses IBM text-to-SQL generator tops leaderboard – IBM Research (Tuesday, July 02, 2024) “IBM’s generative AI solution takes a top spot on the BIRD benchmark for handling complex database queries” Reaffirming IBM’s commitment to the Rome Call for AI…
Notable and Interesting Recent AI News, Articles, and Papers for Monday, July 15, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses Developers get by with a little help from AI: Stack Overflow Knows code assistant pulse survey results – Stack Overflow Gen AI and beyond: Where else to focus now | McKinsey (Friday, July 12, 2024) “Yes, gen AI…
Notable and Interesting Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Saturday, July 13, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about quantum computing. News and Articles A breakthrough on the edge: One step closer to topological quantum computing (Wednesday, July 10, 2024) “Researchers at the University of Cologne have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum materials, potentially setting the stage for advancements in topological…
Notable and Interesting Recent AI News, Articles, and Papers for Thursday, July 11, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news and articles about AI. Enabling Quantum Computing with AI | NVIDIA Technical Blog (Sunday, May 12, 2024) “Building a useful quantum computer in practice is incredibly challenging. Significant improvements are needed in the scale, fidelity, speed, reliability, and programmability of quantum computers to…” The Words That Give…
Notable Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Thursday, July 11, 2024
A selection of the most important recent news and articles about #quantumcomputing. Fourier Quantum Process Tomography | npj Quantum Information (Thursday, May 09, 2024) “The characterization of a quantum device is a crucial step in the development of quantum experiments. This is accomplished via Quantum Process Tomography, which combines the outcomes of different projective measurements…
Notable and Interesting Recent Quantum News, Articles, and Papers for Tuesday, July 9, 2024
planqc Announces €50 Million Series A (Monday, July 08, 2024) “Digital atom-based quantum computing company planqc announced that the company has secured €50 million financing in a Series A round.” Zapata AI and D-Wave Quantum Announce Expanded Partnership for Advanced Generative AI Solutions “BOSTON and PALO ALTO, Calif., July 8, 2024 — Zapata Computing Holdings…
Notable and Interesting Recent AI News, Articles, and Papers for Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Unleash developer productivity with generative AI | McKinsey (Tuesday, June 27, 2023) “A new McKinsey study shows that software developers can complete tasks up to twice as fast with generative AI. Four actions can help maximize productivity.” IBM Makes Generative AI Platform for DevOps Available – DevOps.com (Tuesday, July 02, 2024) “IBM has made available…
Notable and Interesting Recent AI News, Articles, and Papers for Monday, July 1, 2024
France leads the pack for generative AI funding in Europe | TechCrunch (Wednesday, June 19, 2024) “Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence — especially generative AI — is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral services like” Generative AI Can’t Cite Its Sources (Wednesday, June 26, 2024) “How will OpenAI…
Data science in my book Dancing with Python
In my blog entry “Quantum computing in my book Dancing with Python,” I covered what my book covers related to quantum computing. I also published the entry “Availability of my book Dancing with Python and its table of contents.” Today, I want to specifically list what I discuss in the book in what I term…
Call for papers: Education, Research, and Application of Quantum Computing – HICSS 2022
My IBM Quantum colleague Dr. Andrew Wack and I are hosting a minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2022. The description of the minitrack is: There is no question that quantum computing will be a technology that will spur breakthroughs in natural science, AI, and computational algorithms such as those used…
The Amazon Kindle version of Dancing with Qubits is now available!
I’m pleased to announce that the Amazon Kindle version of my quantum computing book Dancing with Qubits is now available! This book provides a comfortable and conversational introduction to quantum computing. I take you through the mathematics you need at a pace that allows you to understand not just “what” but also “why.” When we…
Some practical things you can do to learn about quantum computing
People often ask me “Where should I get started in order to learn about quantum computing?”. Here are several steps you can take. I work for IBM, so things I link to will often be to the IBM Quantum program. Also, I acknowledge that several of the links and videos toward the beginning involve me,…
My #BCTECHSummit 2019 talk
I spoke this morning about quantum computing at #BCTECHSummit in Vancouver, British Columbia. Here are some of the points I emphasized: The mainstream efforts including IBM Q are universal quantum computing systems with the eventual goal of full fault tolerance. However, we believe “Quantum Advantage,” where we show significant improvement over classical methods and machines,…
