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Welcome to The Short, a biweekly recap of IBM’s latest innovations and research in AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and hybrid cloud. For more news, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter, Future Forward.
Week of November 6-17, 2023
What’s new in innovation
What is AI alignment?
“Alignment is the process of encoding human values and goals into large language models to make them as helpful, safe, and reliable as possible. Through alignment, enterprises can tailor AI models to follow their business rules and policies…”
Spotlight
What is quantum utility?
“For the first time in history, quantum computers are demonstrating the ability to solve problems at a scale beyond brute force classical simulation — where the only alternatives are carefully crafted, problem-specific classical approximation methods…”
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You have Thanksgiving turkey to thank for LASIK
“The Thanksgiving dinner table isn’t the most common place to be inspired to invent. All the turkey and sides might make most people think about dozing off rather than coming up with ways to change the lives of millions of people around the world. But 40 years ago this week, a group of IBM researchers…”
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