Quantum – Wednesday, February 5, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary: At the Inside Quantum Technologies Quantum + AI conference in October, I gave the talk “Quantum AI: A Quantum Computing Industry Perspective.” In it, I included the following slide:   Now, I was joking, sort of, but this notion of combining the two technologies is not new. While I was at IBM…

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Quantum – Friday, December 20, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. Today’s Brief Commentary Someone once said to me, and I paraphrase, “Beware of giving analogies when speaking about quantum computing. They will eventually go wrong, especially when comparing concepts to classical phenomena.” Many of us who write and speak about…

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AI – Friday, November 8, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary As I’ve mentioned before, discussions about agentic AI are accelerating rapidly. Generative AI still dominates, but the combination of GenAI with orchestrated agent roles is becoming more widely understood. I’ve included tutorials by IBM and NVIDIA in…

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AI – Monday, October 28, 2024: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Commentary and a selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. Today’s Brief Commentary Today’s links provide several points of view on topics related to Generative AI. Are open source LLMs (large language models) better than proprietary ones? In fact, is “open source” the right way of making these models available…

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Quantum – Wednesday, September 25, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Quantum. General News, Articles, and Analyses Infleqtion Awarded Phase II Quantum Technology Exploit Contract with Australian Army https://www.infleqtion.com/news/infleqtion-awarded-phase-ii-quantum-technology-exploit-contract-with-australian-army (Tuesday, September 10, 2024) “Infleqtion announced an expansion of its work with the Australian Army as part of the Quantum Technology Challenge (QTC). Infleqtion is…

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Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing – Sunday, August 25, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about Coding with and for AI and Quantum Computing. General News, Articles, and Analyses The Walrus Operator: Python’s Assignment Expressions – Real Python https://realpython.com/python-walrus-operator/ Author: Geir Arne Hjelle (Wednesday, August 14, 2024) “In this tutorial, you’ll learn about assignment expressions and the walrus operator….

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AI – Thursday, August 01, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. News, Articles, and Analyses AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ai-is-already-taking-jobs-in-the-video-game-industry/ (Tuesday, July 23, 2024) “A WIRED investigation finds that major players like Activision Blizzard, which recently laid off scores of workers, are using generative AI…

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