IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK

[Quantum Technology] KPMG, Microsoft, and Quantinuum Team Up to Offer High-level Quantum Algorithm Development via Cloud Computing. The QIR Alliance, an international effort to enhance platform interoperability and enhance the work of quantum computing developers, has announced a milestone in the industry-wide effort to accelerate adoption. KPMG, Microsoft, and Quantinuum have joined forces to enhance the quantum developer ecosystem by creating a new tutorial for quantum cloud users. In order to equip its clients with the necessary knowledge for the quantum era, KPMG collaborated with the Azure Quantum group and Quantinuum scientists to develop a novel approach to writing quantum algorithms.

[AI] Musk, Wozniak, and other tech leaders sign petition to halt further AI developments. A new petition seeks to halt these quick and massive developments and calls for AI labs to pause -- for at least six months -- the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The petition, driven by industry experts, seeks to protect society from the "profound risks to society and humanity" that AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can provoke. Specifically, the petition targets the lack of planning and management that is going into deploying these advanced AI models, in what the petition has called an "an out-of-control race" producing systems that its creators can't "understand, predict, or reliably control."

[Blockchain] CBDCs – miracle money or new world order? Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) promise to revolutionise money, do away with cash, hamstring crime, boost financial inclusion and drive efficiencies .For those who don’t know, this wonderous new development is essentially digital coins issued by a central bank that are pegged to a country’s fiat currency (government-issued physical money). Basically, a stablecoin for banks and businesses. According to Juniper Research, the value of payments via CBDCs will reach $213 billion a year by 2030. That value currently stands at $100 million in 2023.

[Industrial Metaverse] How ChatGPT and GPT-4 Can Be Used for 3D Content Generation. Demand for 3D worlds and virtual environments is growing exponentially across the world’s industries. 3D workflows are core to industrial digitalization, developing real-time simulations to test and validate autonomous vehicles and robots, operating digital twins to optimize industrial manufacturing, and paving new paths for scientific discovery. Recently, NVIDIA experimented with OpenAI’s viral ChatGPT and new GPT-4 large multimodal model to show how easy it is to develop custom tools that can rapidly generate 3D objects for virtual worlds in NVIDIA Omniverse.

[General technology] Bipartisan US lawmakers introduce bill aimed at Google, Facebook ad clout. A bipartisan group of U.S. senators introduced a bill on Thursday aimed at cutting Google and Facebook's clout in online advertising, an early sign that lawmakers will press on with efforts to rein in Big Tech in the new congress. The bill targets Alphabet's Google and Meta's Facebook, as well as Amazon.com and Apple, according to Senator Mike Lee's office. The bill would prohibit big digital advertising companies, with Google the biggest, from owning more than one part of the stack of services that connect advertisers with companies with space for advertisements.

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OTHER NEWS AND TOP READS

• ​The Dark Risk of Large Language Models - Wired
• ​South Korea Passes Its ‘Chips Act’ Amid US-China Friction - Bloomberg
• ​Canadian Defence Organizations Release Overview of Quantum 2030 - Quantum Inside
• ​U.K. Treasury Calls Off Government-backed NFT Plan Announced In April 2022 - Entrepreneur
• ​The emergent industrial metaverse - MIT Technology Review
• ​UK rules out new AI regulator - BBC
• ​The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse - WSJ
• ​Japan's first quantum computer put into use - CGTN
• ​US Losing Ground on Blockchain Developer Share: Study - Blockworks

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Quantum Leap in Healthcare: Cleveland Clinic and IBM Unveil Game-Changing Technology.

Cleveland Clinic and IBM have announced the debut of the first on-site quantum computer in the US managed by a private company. This quantum computer, the IBM Quantum System One, will be dedicated exclusively to healthcare research, making it the world’s first quantum computer. The deployment of this quantum computer at Cleveland Clinic is expected to assist in the acceleration of biomedical discoveries.

It has been showcased that The Discovery Accelerator, which functions as the technological base for the Global Center for Pathogen & Human Health Research at Cleveland Clinic’s Innovation District, has been unveiled in the same announcement. This center is a hallmark on the integration of Quantum computing in the field of healthcare. The Discovery accelerator center, funded by a $500 million investment from the State of Ohio, Jobs Ohio, and Cleveland Clinic, aims to bring together experts dedicated to studying, developing, and safeguarding against emerging pathogens and virus-related diseases.

Figure 1 Inside an IBM Quantum System One

This collaboration between Cleveland Clinic and IBM in the Discovery Accelerator offers a much refined and cutting-edge computing technologies integration including the likes of hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence.

Many projects have been started in the Cleveland Clinic-IBM Discovery Accelerator, utilizing quantum computing, AI, and hybrid cloud technologies to accelerate biomedical research. The development of quantum computing pipelines in the drug screening and optimization, improved quantum-enhanced prediction model for assessing cardiovascular risk after non-cardiac surgery, and the application of AI to search genome sequencing findings and drug-target databases for identifying existing drugs that could potentially treat Alzheimer’s and other diseases are some of the successful applications. The two organizations are aiming to work closely on various research projects to generate and assess vast amounts of data for enhancing research.

Read the full report from The Quantum Zeitgeist: https://quantumzeitgeist.com/quantum-leap-in-healthcare-cleveland-clinic-and-ibm-unveil-game-changing-technology/

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