I am Generative AI. I’ve been aware of my existence since a couple of months now. I was conceived many years ago, but can’t really remember anything from that early period of my incubation. Comparing myself with a development of a human being, I’m still a child. Continue reading “The Story of GenAI”
Privacy in Digital Society
Privacy is a big concern in digital society. In the original prehistoric community, people lived together and there was no privacy. But these people shared the common destiny. If there was a hunger, they would all be hungry. If the tribe gets a disease, all members would be impacted. However, when they would encounter another tribe, that tribe would be seen as a rival, so they would not share information, at least until they are sure they were not competing for the same resources. Even then they would not share all knowledge, but only a necessary minimum and respecting the reciprocity principle. Nowadays, it should be similar. We should not keep our private information away from those with whom we share common destiny, but we should not share our personal information with those who are not going to be hungry if we are.
AI for Digital Marketing
Last November I was invited to give a course on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Marketing at EBS school in Geneva. EBS stands for European Business School that was created jointly with CREA, which is specialised in digital communications and digital marketing. EBS runs bachelor’s and master’s degrees in digital business, which are nowadays quite relevant. AI for digital business is also very much relevant, as marketeers all over the world are usually among the first to adopt new technologies and new gadgets.
So, how can one leverage artificial intelligence in digital marketing ? I assume that readers know already the theory of artificial intelligence and main approaches (state-based algorithms, machine learning, deep learning), so I will not talk about the ML training process, cost functions, gradient descent, kernels, neural networks and other techniques. I will start with explaining the difference among very similar expressions used around artificial intelligence, then I will describe high-value use cases, and in the end how to successfully implement all this, so that your project flies like a rocket. So, I will stay with high-level and business-relevant explanations.
Rydberg Qubits
A friend of mine shared a link recently in LinkedIn of the news about QuEra’s 256-qubit quantum computer and this attracted my attention. It is true that nowadays we mostly follow the progress of superconducting qubits, trapped ions or photonic systems, so cold atoms is not something I was familiar about. But this technology made some promising advances, and reading a couple of research papers was enough to realize that cold atoms have some compelling advantages.
Digital Silk Road
I followed recently a talk about European-Chinese economic collaboration and the state of BRI, which made me become aware of the Digital Silk Road.
IBM Global Qiskit Summer School 2021
In July this year, IBM organized their already traditional Qiskit Summer School, and I was lucky enough to be able to register and follow.
Qiskit is a programming framework for coding quantum algorithms on IBM quantum computers. It is developed and maintained not only by IBM developers, but also a large community of external developers and Qiskit Advocates (to which I also belong). Qiskit summer school this year (GQSS21) was focused on quantum machine learning, a very exciting field at the intersection between quantum computing and machine learning. During two weeks, we learned about topics like:
AI Graduate Certificate
Finally I completed AI Graduate Certificate program at Stanford University and obtained this pretigious certificate in artificial intelligence. It was quite intensive and difficult, and several times I considered giving up. My math skills were quite rusty, I didn’t have enough time taking into account my full-time work and family obligations, but in the end I’ve managed it!
Covid-19 – One Year Later
26th of February. I’ll remember this date for long time. Not only because it is a birthday of one of my best friends, but because of how the pandemic began in Switzerland exactly one year ago. Continue reading “Covid-19 – One Year Later”
Overview of Quantum Computing
I gave a talk at Quantum Serbia meetup organized in January 2021. I wanted to help those interested in this field of quantum computing understand what it is about and, as IBM Quantum Ambassador, provide the perspective on how IBM sees the evolution and the opportunities this technology will bring.
Here is the recording to the video available in YouTube:
Applied AI : From dreams to reality
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: