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Thursday, April 18, 2024
Friday, April 12, 2024
home quantum computing
New Advances Promise Secure Quantum Computing At Home (phys.org)13
Scientists from Oxford University Physics have developed a breakthrough in cloud-based quantum computing that could allow it to be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies. The findings have been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. Phys.Org reports:In the new study, the researchers use an approach dubbed "blind quantum computing," which connects two totally separate quantum computing entities -- potentially an individual at home or in an office accessing a cloud server -- in a completely secure way. Importantly, their new methods could be scaled up to large quantum computations. "Using blind quantum computing, clients can access remote quantum computers to process confidential data with secret algorithms and even verify the results are correct, without revealing any useful information. Realizing this concept is a big step forward in both quantum computing and keeping our information safe online," said study lead Dr. Peter Drmota, of Oxford University Physics.
The researchers created a system comprising a fiber network link between a quantum computing server and a simple device detecting photons, or particles of light, at an independent computer remotely accessing its cloud services. This allows so-called blind quantum computing over a network. Every computation incurs a correction that must be applied to all that follow and needs real-time information to comply with the algorithm. The researchers used a unique combination of quantum memory and photons to achieve this. The results could ultimately lead to commercial development of devices to plug into laptops, to safeguard data when people are using quantum cloud computing services."We have shown for the first time that quantum computing in the cloud can be accessed in a scalable, practical way which will also give people complete security and privacy of data, plus the ability to verify its authenticity," said Professor David Lucas, who co-heads the Oxford University Physics research team and is lead scientist at the UK Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub, led from Oxford University Physics.
The researchers created a system comprising a fiber network link between a quantum computing server and a simple device detecting photons, or particles of light, at an independent computer remotely accessing its cloud services. This allows so-called blind quantum computing over a network. Every computation incurs a correction that must be applied to all that follow and needs real-time information to comply with the algorithm. The researchers used a unique combination of quantum memory and photons to achieve this. The results could ultimately lead to commercial development of devices to plug into laptops, to safeguard data when people are using quantum cloud computing services."We have shown for the first time that quantum computing in the cloud can be accessed in a scalable, practical way which will also give people complete security and privacy of data, plus the ability to verify its authenticity," said Professor David Lucas, who co-heads the Oxford University Physics research team and is lead scientist at the UK Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub, led from Oxford University Physics.
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Joker films released before US Presidential elections
The previous Joker film builds up the Joker as a bullied victim who ultimately leads a violent mob.
The new Joker sequel trailer alludes to 'change' and mob violence in such a way, I couldn't help but check the release dates relative to the US elections...I can only speculate what cake is likely to build up ahead of the election that this film will serve to ice.
Bring in Lady Gaga and really sell a romantic revolution.
No coincidence, the first film was released October 4 of 2019, and the sequel will be released October 4 of 2024.
No doubt, the film and actors will win awards. Genius! Stupendous!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UInBwhQQ0A
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Apple home robots
Apple Reportedly Exploring Personal Home Robots (cnbc.com)55
As reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple is exploring the development of personal home robots following the shut down of its electric vehicle project. CNBC reports:Engineers at Apple have been looking into a robot that can follow users around their homes and a tabletop device that uses robotics to adjust a display screen, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the research team. [...] Apple's hardware engineering division and its artificial intelligence and machine learning group are overseeing the work on personal robotics, Bloomberg reported. The home robot project is still in the early research and development phase, according to the report.
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Face of AI
I have the idea of connecting a face to an LLM that can offer real-time emotional expression to represent the system's reaction to verbal and visual input.
My original purpose is to provide realistic feedback to my presentation of content.
A practical use case would be to provide analysis and evaluation while simulating emotional responses to storytelling, comedy, instruction, explanation, etc., thereby offering presenters a natural target for content development and providing a medium for practicing and refining a presentation.
The concept, however, approaches the challenge of simulating personality and raises the question of sensibility - i.e. - different personalities respond differently. What about simulating a crowd? What about an intoxicated crowd? Hecklers? Perhaps these variants may be filtered with settings, but the concept also raised the question of innate bias in LLMs, and the need for unfiltered or 'objective' LLMs.
Can an LLM have a philosophy, or an attitude, or sensibility?
Can an LLM recognize, comprehend or appreciate the humor of impressions or funny noises given a voice or computer vision input?
Can an LLM recognize and appreciate humorous delivery of a joke, for example, subtle sarcasm in the tone of voice or facial expression, regardless of the context of the words?
If an LLM had such capabilities, sentiment analysis, etc., could it laugh and how would it laugh? What would account for the manner of laugh?
How might different LLMs have different 'senses of humor'?
For that matter, how might human laughter be analyzed and taxonomized by an AI system?
It's interesting to think of an LLM having involuntary responses, as if it had a parasympathetic nervous system.
Certainly, given a context, ChatGPT can analyze and evaluate, but can it express a reaction in real-time or does it wait until it receives the entire spiel? Is the LLM self aware of it's own bias?
I searched 'Does ChatGPT have a face' and found this article about a company called Zero Distance.
Here's their YouTube channel.
Here's the product website, WEHEAD.
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