An interesting conference last evening in Geneva on applied AI, which confirmed my perception that we are no longer in the times of spectacular news, like winning different games against human players, but that we are talking now of challenges of practical implementations. A couple of insights:
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Understanding Quantum Computing
What are quantum computers, how do they work and what they can do that the classical computers can’t? In this post I want to explain some of the most important facts about quantum computing, so if you are interested in this hot topic, please read further.
Tesla Model 3
Last month I had opportunity to drive some of the latest Mercedes models of different types through a rent-a-car agency. And they are very good to drive. But comparing with Tesla, not at the same level of experience.
Here is the list of my reasons to purchase one such full-electric car.
Gender Equality
I was reading this report from IBM Institute for Business value titled ‘Women, Leadership and the Priority Paradox‘ and it just came to my mind : how obvious and commonsensical this actually is.
Everybody should agree that intelligence is equally distributed among two genders. At least all of us could see that in the primary and secondary schools, where boys and girls are both able to understand math, learn languages, science and arts. Still, later in life, in the western and most of modern societies, men have more power and money and women less of it. Maybe you would say : “Men earn money to bring home and women decide how to spend it”. But who decides within these companies and governments how to spend money ? Following the same logic, then shouldn’t it be the women ?
Blockchain for Trade Finance
I was invited recently to take part in Blockchain Finance conference in Singapore as a panelist in a panel discussion about the use of blockchain for trade finance applications. I find this subject very interesting for many reasons that I will try to elaborate in this post. First I will just explain the main purpose and challenges of trade finance, and then what the benefit of blockchain in this particular field can be.
Think 2019
February 12 – 15 was the week for Think 2019, according to some analysis the most important tech event of the year. IBM assembled together all major individual exhibitions and this was the second edition of Think, now the main annual IBM conference. This time the event took place in San Francisco. I attended the event as one of the speakers on the subject of Watson Machine Learning and Watson Studio, and in my session I also had as guest Anyline, AI company from Austria.
The conference was successful and it was huge. Not only based on the number of participants (around 30’000), or sessions (more than 3’000), but also on the quality of discussions and topics. IBM events are not so much about announcements, but I will list and describe the most important ones in this post, along with highlights of the most recent and interesting technologies. Continue reading “Think 2019”
Quantum Computing Master Class
On January 31, I was instructor at the Quantum Master Class at IBM Studio in Zürich.
I coded in Qiskit (IBM’s Python SDK for quantum information science) and demonstrated how different Bell states can be implemented in jupyter notebook, how one can code the entanglement of three qubits, how to develop of the quantum circuit for bit addition, and the logic behind Deutsch’s algorithm with its implementation in Qiskit. Continue reading “Quantum Computing Master Class”
AI Conference in Serbia
“Serbian AI Valley”
On November 9 this year, I gave a speech at the first international AI conference in Serbia. The venue took place in the beautiful city of Novi Sad, in participation of around 300 AI developers and enthusiasts, data scientists, businessmen and representatives of academia. A first thing that you realize when going to Eastern Europe for a tech conference, is a high level of technical interests and expertise of the local people. This was the case also in Serbia. When you talk to them, you realize they are serious developers. It is estimated that there are around 50’000 people in total working in different IT jobs in Serbia, and this region around Novi Sad has actually the highest concentration of skilled IT professionals. Continue reading “AI Conference in Serbia”
Introduction to Deep Learning
As I have done this presentation already several times and got a good feedback, I’m posting here the slides and some useful links that allowed me to learn and understand DL better.
And some of the great resources I’d like to share
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Deep Learning and Watson Studio
It was fun to play with Watson Studio and create my own convolutional neural network. Watson Studio is complex but easy and graphically intuitive tool, and integrates well with Watson Machine Learning engine. I used standard MNIST data set (with images of hand-written digits), created three layers deep CNN, exported the algorithm in TensorFlow / Keras, trained the model both using GPUs on Watson and locally on my Jupyter Python Macbook environment and got nice results. To data scientists and AI developers : go and use it. And for all other enthusiasts, the best way to learn AI is to create it yourself 🙂 ! Continue reading “Deep Learning and Watson Studio”