AI Weekend Edition – Saturday, February 22, 2025: Commentary with Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

Today’s Brief Commentary: Microsoft made a lot of news this week in the quantum space via its giant marketing and communication machine with the introduction of its Majorana-1 chip. (All the big corporations have giant marketing and communication machines. Cf. Google, IBM, and NVIDIA.) On the same day, they introduced Muse, a generative AI “World…

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AI Weekend Edition – Saturday, January 18, 2025: 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 Two of the links today are related to an IBM survey of software developers regarding the creation of generative AI apps. TLDR: it’s not easy, and the tools aren’t great. Developers tend to build the tools they…

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Quantum – Tuesday, December 17, 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 Plastic glass. Jumbo shrimp. Open secret. These are all examples of oxymorons, phrases whose first halves seem to be the opposite of the second. I read another one over the weekend: Quantum computing classical hardware. To be…

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AI – Saturday, December 7, 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 Some of you have asked how I build this newsletter with the links and categorization. During the days before publishing an edition, I collect links to articles, papers, newsletters, and web pages on AI and quantum technologies…

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AI – Monday, November 18, 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 Large Language Models (LLMs) don’t continuously learn, and David Linthicum covers this ground well in his YouTube video in the Generative AI and Models section. I strongly recommend that you watch it. I think today’s LLM +…

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An advanced quantum computer

Quantum – Tuesday, November 12, 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 Today’s links are primarily about quantum computing, with a couple of others thrown in about a quantum game and quantum networking. Start paying attention to the Imec company for quantum-related technology. It shows up twice in the…

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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, Agents, and Skynet – Tuesday, October 22, 2024: 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 Most of the links today concern AI agents, autonomous processes acting in the background on your behalf, or so you think. The comparison to Skynet from the Terminator movies is pretty clear, though no one wants…

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AI – Saturday, October 12, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Introducing canvas: A new way of working with ChatGPT to write and code | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-canvas/ (Thursday, October 3, 2024) “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go…

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Quantum – Monday, September 30, 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 Gov. Pritzker Announces Investments in EeroQ Quantum Hardware Headquarters in Chicago https://gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker-announces-investments-in-eeroq-quantum-hardware-headquarters-in-chicago (Wednesday, September 25, 2024) “Today, Governor JB Pritzker joined the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) and EeroQ Corporation leadership to announce new…

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AI – Saturday, September 28, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Microsoft Trustworthy AI: Unlocking human potential starts with trust https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/09/24/microsoft-trustworthy-ai-unlocking-human-potential-starts-with-trust/ Author: Takeshi Numoto (Tuesday, September 24, 2024) “As AI advances, we all have a role to play to unlock AI’s positive impact for organizations and communities around…

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AI – Tuesday, September 24, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses NotebookLM now lets you listen to a conversation about your sources https://blog.google/technology/ai/notebooklm-audio-overviews/ Author: Biao Wang (Wednesday, September 11, 2024) “Today, we’re introducing Audio Overview, a new way to turn your documents into engaging audio discussions. With one…

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AI – Saturday, September 21, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses High-Level Explanations: Agentic AI Deep-Dive https://deepgram.com/learn/agentic-ai-explained Author: Tife Sanusi (Friday, September 13, 2024) “Agentic AI is the next step in AI’s evolution. The new technology is being actively sought after with organizations from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory,…

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AI – Wednesday, September 18, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Audible to Start Generating AI Voice Replicas of Select Audiobook Narrators – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-09/amazon-s-audible-to-create-ai-voice-replicas-of-select-audiobook-narrators Author: Ashley Carman (Monday, September 9, 2024) “Narrators who opt in will be able to construct their voice replicas for free. Afterward, they…

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AI – Friday, September 13, 2024: Notable and Interesting News, Articles, and Papers

A selection of the most important recent news, articles, and papers about AI. General News, Articles, and Analyses Video game actors’ strike: 80 games adopt SAG-AFTRA AI terms, union says – Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-09-05/video-game-actors-strike-sag-aftra-ai-artificial-intelligence Author: Christi Carras (Friday, September 6, 2024) “SAG-AFTRA says 80 video games have agreed to abide by its proposed AI…

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