Communications of the ACM
Building a Practical Quantum Computer
Quantum computation has a long road ahead.
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Duke Energy Used Computer Vision, Robots to Cut Costs by $74 Million
Bonnie Titone at Duke Energy said the U.S. utility has slashed its labor costs by more than $74 million via artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions...
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IBM Partners with U.K. on $300 Million Quantum Computing Research Initiative
A five-year, $297.5-million partnership between IBM and the U.K. government will research quantum computing and artificial intelligence in the quest for sustainable...
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Honeywell Says Quantum Computers Will Outpace Standard Verification in '18 to 24 Months'
Compared to other companies, Honeywell's approach to quantum computing focuses on a narrower range of more stable qubits.
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Walmart, Cruise Launch Pilot to Deliver Orders via Self-Driving Cars
Autonomous vehicle startup Cruise has announced a partnership with Walmart to deliver orders from a Scottsdale, AZ, Walmart store to local customers' homes.
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Lyft Releases Self-Driving Vehicle Data Set, Launches $30,000 Challenge
Lyft has released a Prediction Dataset, which contains the logs of movements of cars, pedestrians, and other obstacles encountered by its 23 autonomous vehicles...
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IBM Claims Its Neural Computer Achieves Record AI Model Training Time
Researchers at IBM have developed a reconfigurable parallel processing system called the IBM Neural Computer.
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UC Berkeley Researchers Open-Source RAD to Improve Any Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
A team of researchers has open-sourced Reinforcement Learning with Augmented Data.
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