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🔥 Meet Dr. Ameer Haj Ali, PhD, the driving force behind Anyscale, at the #GENAISummitSF2024 🔥 Dr. Ameer Haj Ali, PhD, Founding Engineer of Anyscale, is a pioneer in scalable compute for #AI and #Python, driving innovation with Ray, the most popular open-source framework for scaling and productionizing AI workloads. Anyscale stands out in the competitive landscape of AI infrastructure providers, offering a unique advantage with Ray's flexibility and scalability. By powering the world's most ambitious AI workloads, from #generative AI to #computer #vision, Anyscale has established itself as a leader in the industry. With notable customers like OpenAI, Spotify, and Uber, Anyscale has demonstrated significant performance improvements, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency. The company's founders have a strong track record of innovation, and its business performance has been impressive in recent years. #ai #artificialintelligence #airevolution #machinelearning #deeplearning #futureofai #techinvestment #technews #techstartup #techleaders #techtrend #technology #tech #SF #sanfrancisco

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🌅 "Those who rise with the sun have a light they are eager to shine on the world." - Dr. Ziad Haddad I'm inspired by this powerful quote from Dr. Ziad Haddad's recent webinar on "Lead Your Life and Energy Career." It reminds us of the importance of starting our day with energy and purpose. I loved also when you mentioned that goals should not just be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-bound). 💡"A good goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot"💡 Absolutely agreed! Good goals should push us out of our comfort zones. A goal that scares you a little challenges you to grow, learn, and take risks. It should be ambitious enough to make you nervous but also excite you about the possibilities and rewards. Thank you, Dr. Ziad Haddad, for your enlightening presentation! #Inspiration #Leadership #CareerGrowth #Motivation #Energy #LeadYourLife #EnergyCareer #PersonalDevelopment #ProfessionalGrowth #AEE

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I attended an insane meeting called Headstarter Pathways to Tech where we saw Dustin Beadle, Nabeel Alamgir🦄, Logan Havern, Shariar Kabir and Miguel Acero and couldn't help but share some key takeaways from them 📝 🔹Start conversations with compliments and thoughtful questions. It's all about building connections, as Headstarter CEO Yasin Ehsan 🚀 suggested. 🔹Understand the history of computer science and algorithms - it's not just about the latest trends! Thanks for this pearl of wisdom, Dustin Beadle from LTIS. 🔹Don't underestimate the power of collaboration, communication, and conflict resolution skills in tech 💼 🔹Your nationality or passport doesn't define your career potential. Focus on networking, leadership skills and continuous learning. Remember: hard work, hustle and persistence are crucial in achieving career goals in tech 👩‍💻 Do you know something very interesting? Ruby made a partnership with Headstarter and they are going to take couple of fellows from this program as their interns without any interviews. It's a great opportunity for all the fellows Feeling motivated? Headstarter uploaded the video of the meeting too if anyone wants to watch. Video Link: https://lnkd.in/eyxDAneK Let's make our mark in the tech industry 💪 #TechIndustry #CareerGoals #Networking #CommunicationSkills #Headstarter

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0059: Mapping Molecular Hamiltonians To Qubit Operators with Jordan-Wigner Transformation In quantum computing, the efficient mapping of molecular Hamiltonians to qubit operators is a critical step in solving electronic structure problems, especially in quantum chemistry. One of the most established methods for achieving this is the Jordan-Wigner Transformation (JWT). The JWT translates fermionic operators, which describe the behavior of electrons in molecules, into qubit operators that can be used in quantum algorithms. The central challenge in electronic structure calculations is the fermionic nature of electrons, which obey the Pauli exclusion principle and anti-commutation relations. Fermionic operators are used to create and annihilate electrons in specific quantum states, but these operators do not directly translate to qubit-based quantum computing. This is where JWT comes in: it provides a systematic way to represent these fermionic operators as qubit operators that obey the commutation relations of quantum gates. The Jordan-Wigner Transformation maps each fermionic operator to a string of Pauli matrices on qubits. Specifically, each fermionic creation or annihilation operator is mapped to a combination of Pauli-Z, Pauli-X, and Pauli-Y operators that span the qubits, ensuring that the anti-commutation properties of fermions are preserved in the qubit space. By mapping molecular Hamiltonians using the Jordan-Wigner Transformation, we can represent the electronic interactions and energy of a molecule in a form that quantum computers can process. Once this mapping is complete, variational algorithms like the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) or Quantum Phase Estimation (QPE) can be employed to estimate the ground-state energy of the molecule. These algorithms aim to find the eigenvalues of the molecular Hamiltonian, which directly correspond to the molecular energy levels. The benefit of using JWT is that it scales linearly with the number of qubits, making it an efficient method for near-term quantum devices. However, it has some limitations, such as the need for long-range qubit interactions, which may pose a challenge for hardware implementations. Other transformations, like the Bravyi-Kitaev Transformation, offer alternatives with different trade-offs in qubit connectivity and operator complexity. The Jordan-Wigner Transformation is foundational in quantum chemistry simulations on quantum computers. It bridges the gap between the fermionic nature of molecules and the qubit-based framework of quantum computing. As the field progresses, leveraging such transformations is essential for advancing quantum simulations of complex molecular systems, which could lead to breakthroughs in fields like drug discovery, material science, and energy research. Check comment for links to code repository and resources in Quantum Chemistry.

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### OpenAI's Vision: Making AI as Ubiquitous as Electricity OpenAI is pushing boundaries and altering landscapes once again! Sam Altman, the trailblazing CEO of OpenAI, is in talks with the United Arab Emirates, prominent Asian chipmakers, and U.S. officials. The goal? Expanding the computational capacity that drives the remarkable advancements in artificial intelligence. Imagine a world where AI flows as seamlessly and universally as electricity. Altman’s strategic collaborations symbolize a revolutionary step toward creating an infrastructure robust enough to support the ever-evolving AI technologies. This move is not just about boosting computational power; it's about reshaping our digital and physical worlds. How will this audacious initiative impact the scalability and adoption of AI across industries worldwide? #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI #SamAltman #TechInnovation #FutureTech #ComputationalPower

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Exciting Developments in AI Chip Manufacturing! Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) and Samsung Electronics are exploring the possibility of establishing major factories in the United Arab Emirates to meet the growing demand for AI chips. According to the Wall Street Journal, both companies have recently visited the UAE to discuss this ambitious initiative. While plans are still in early stages and face significant challenges, the projected investment could exceed $100 billion. If successful, these facilities would not only bolster the UAE’s domestic tech industry—supported by Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala sovereign fund—but also enhance global semiconductor production, potentially lowering prices for AI server components. TSMC remains focused on its current global projects, while Samsung has not yet commented. As the demand for AI technology skyrockets, the development of these manufacturing hubs could play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the semiconductor industry. For more information: https://lnkd.in/dgKvKK-Q #AI #Semiconductors #TechInvestment #UAE #TSMC #Samsung #Innovation #Manufacturing

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Our new contribution on utilizing #AI especially #hyperdimensional computing for #robotics. It is great collaborative effort between our team at SOCL Khalifa University and Mohsen Imani group at UC Irvine. Enjoy the read!!! Eman Hassan Yahya Zweiri Mohsen Imani

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Had a great time presenting our works at OpalAi on Spatial Intelligence at Plug&Play Persian Tech Network in Los Angeles today! Spatial Intelligence is crucial for AI systems to navigate the 3D world, a key step towards achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and superintelligence. Three-dimensional situational awareness in dynamic environments is not merely a desirable feature; it is a fundamental prerequisite for any AI agent aiming to operate effectively and autonomously in real-world scenarios. This capability is the crucial bridge connecting an agent’s perception of its immediate surroundings with its comprehension of the broader, evolving context, enabling effective reasoning, planning, and action. Current GenAI systems, including large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), demonstrate significant limitations in robust 3D spatial reasoning, particularly within dynamic environments. These limitations hinder the development of truly intelligent embodied agents capable of operating in complex, real-world situations.  Excitingly, at OpalAi, we are leveraging Spatial Intelligence for indoor mapping and city mapping, with validation from NSF and DOT. Thrilled for the new opportunities this chapter brings to our startup journey! The figured is adapted from Fei-Fei Li. #SpatialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #AIInnovation #3DMapping #IndoorMapping #CityMapping #AGI #TechInnovation #AIResearch #SmartCities #AIApplications #MachineLearning #NSF #PlugAndPlay #TechInLA #opalai #UCLAAnderson #USCIncubator #CompleteStreetAI

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I'm organizing an innovation forum titled The Age of Industrial AI Agents: Opportunities & Challenges at IEEE MIPR 2024 on August 7th, 2024. We have a late cancellation and are looking for a replacement speaker and a panelist. If anyone has significant experience in R&D or operationalization of agentic technologies, LLMs, VLMs, etc. and would like to speak at the forum, kindly DM me or Ning Xu. Kindly take a look below and let me know. (Attn: #BayArea, #SouthBay, #SanFrancisco) == https://lnkd.in/e8hGKmTu The Age of Industrial AI Agents: Opportunities & Challenges An AI Agent is an intelligent ‘computer’ system capable of agency, i.e. independent decision making and autonomous action based on contextualized situational awareness using sensing, perception, (causal) world modeling and a nuanced understanding of one's own agency and its impact on the world. Communicative AI agents are set to revolutionize human-machine collaborative systems and workflows whereby humans and agents can engage in natural multimodal communication in the same way as humans do. The agents can operate in a continuum of delegated autonomy modes, offloading data-intensive tasks needing high throughput, invoke backend tools to carry out a series of sophisticated actions, while not compromising human oversight or judgment. While such agents are poised to transform industries as diverse as healthcare and manufacturing, significant challenges remain in creating industrial strength agents that can operate robustly in open-world settings, exhibit both common sense reasoning and formal, domain-specific knowhow, are instructable and conform to human expectations, and communicate with high precision and accuracy backed by domain-specific grounded explanations. Our panels of experts comprise academic experts, industrial innovators, and VC investors. Drawing on their own experiences, they will present and discuss the opportunities and the challenges to creating industrial-strength agents that can provide real-value to the industry and the society at large, in a risk-free and safe fashion. #AI #Agents #LLMs #VLMs

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IEEE Comsoc Distinguished Lecture, Monday 16-Sep-2024 in SCU Campus: "Signal Processing for Integrated Sensing and Communications" Abstract: In this talk, we focus on the recent developments toward integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). We consider a broad definition of coexistence, which covers ISAC, collaborative communications, and sensing with interference. Toward fully realizing the coexistence of the two systems, optimization of resources for both new/futuristic sensing and wireless communications modalities is crucial. These synergistic approaches that exploit the interplay between state sensing and communications are both driving factors and opportunities for many current signal processing and information-theoretic techniques. In addition, a large body of prior works considers colocated ISAC systems while distributed systems remain relatively unexamined. Building on the existing approaches, the tutorial focuses on highlighting emerging scenarios in collaborative and distributed ISAC, particularly at mm-Wave and THz frequencies, highly dynamic vehicular/automotive environments that would benefit from information exchange between the two systems. It presents the architectures and possible methodologies for mutually beneficial distributed co-existence and co-design, including sensor fusion and heterogeneously distributed radar and communications. The tutorial also considers recent developments such as the deployment of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) in ISAC, 5G systems, passive internet-of-things, and ISAC secrecy rate optimization. This tutorial aims to draw the attention of the radar, communications, and signal processing communities toward an emerging area, which can benefit from the cross-fertilization of ideas in distributed systems. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbJ8Ex7Z

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🌟 Exciting Poster Presentation Experience at the 2024 IEEE Conference! 🌟 I'm thrilled to share that I had the incredible opportunity to present my research on "Multi-Head Self-Attention Mechanisms in Vision Transformers for Retinal Image Classification" with Sumaia Akter (farha) at the 2024 IEEE Conference on Computing, Applications, and Systems (COMPAS)! Through this project, I explored the power of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in detecting Diabetic Retinopathy (DR), achieving a remarkable accuracy of 96.13% and a strong ROC-AUC of 0.969. My presentation delved into how ViTs can revolutionize medical image analysis, offering a more efficient and reliable method to detect eye diseases, enabling early intervention. 🔑 Key Takeaways: - Vision Transformers exhibit outstanding diagnostic accuracy in retinal image classification. - There's immense potential to enhance this approach with future research focusing on multi-class categorization, larger datasets, and clinical integration. - AI in healthcare can lead to more accurate, time-saving solutions and support better decision-making for medical professionals. I’m incredibly grateful for the support I’ve received and proud to have contributed to this impactful work. Looking forward to exploring more opportunities in this space! #AI #DeepLearning #VisionTransformers #HealthcareInnovation #DiabeticRetinopathy #MedicalImaging #IEEEConference #ResearchPresentation #MachineLearning #healthcare

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Empathy Deception with AI. What's the reality? My chart, attached in the comments, shows how important Rapport is at the base of all kinds of service exchanges and what AI's range is relative to what humans can do. At its basic level, AI can replicate cognitively constructed, intellectualised sympathy. At its most sophisticated this can fool people into thinking the AI is demonstrating empathy because of its 'fidelity of relevance'. However as you rightly say this is not based on actual creation and fostering of emotions in a felt, deep, resonant way. Of course it is an illusion with hidden hallucinations, that, if not managed effectively, will manifest risks to psychological safety and even cause harm.

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Venkat Tummalapalli and I were lucky enough to visit with one of our favorite customers this week. Team Nesh has been working with IEEE over the 2 years to enhance their #AskIEEE solution. #AskIEEE leverages Nesh’s GenAI capabilities to provide accurate and contextually rich answers to queries of IEEE’s vast library of technical literature in engineering and science. With Nesh fueling #AskIEEE, the organization’s 421,000 members gain streamlined access to the information they need from IEEE’s wealth of scientific content. This week, we met with the IEEE team in Toronto at their Board of Directors Meeting to showcase the benefits of a solution like #AskIEEE. Here are some of my takeaways from our conversations: 1. AskIEEE and Nesh have melded the concern of content distribution behind a paywall with the need for GenAI-powered productivity. 2. AskIEE helps IEEE’s global membership work seamlessly across timelines — enabling them to access the niche-knowledge they need even when other collaborators aren’t online. 3. And as always — GenAI enthusiasm continues. Companies and organizations should focus on meeting this enthusiasm from their members and employees. Start with defining a narrow use cases that can scale once proven. Great things ahead for #AskIEEE, the IEEE team Priscilla Amalraj, CAE, Rakesh Kumar, Steve Woods, Sampath Heragu, and Nesh! #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #IEEE

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In Q3 '24 AMD outperformed Intel in the server chip market for the year, nabbing 33.9% of revenue and representing a YoY growth of 2.7%. This places AMD firmly in the server CPU market. AMD's desktop and mobile CPUs are also showing growth. https://lnkd.in/gc4BVQ9w

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Big thanks to NACD Chapter of Northern California for organizing an educational session on Quantum Computing for Board Directors and Lisa Spivey 史白薇 Executive Director of the Chapter for organizing the event, KPMG for sponsoring and Pete Shadbolt Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of PsiQuantum, Patrick Huston Board Director of QuantumShield, Dr. Aaron C. Kemp - CISSP US Quantum Leader of KPMG LLP and Laurie Yoler General Partner Playground Global for serving as panelists. Here are my learnings from the session: 1) Quantum computing has arrived….on the heels of Google’s Willow announcement we can see significant move to get this new technology deployed. Amazing work by Hartmut Neven and his team. Willow quantum chip represents a significant milestone in various ways: a) Error reduction breakthrough b) Impressive computational power ( Random Circuit Sampling completes in under five minutes, which would take one of today's fastest supercomputers approximately 10 septillion years to complete) c) Progress towards quantum supremacy d) Scalability potential e) Implications for future advancements (significant progress in healthcare, scientific research, space, finance where computers can manage much larger datasets to solve complex problems). 2) With Quantum Computing comes a number of risks including those relating to our national security….hence this is a field where there will be an international race of progress. Very much looking forward to see what’s next from Microsoft teams led by Krysta Svore, Jason Zander and Charles Tahan and Amazon teams led by Richard Moulds, Simone Severini, Nadia Carlsten, PhD and Fernando Brandao 3) QC is not a fad and will change the landscape of talent deployment creating employment opportunities for years to come 4) Real world applications are still some time away….which can give executives and boards time to prepare for what’s to come in terms of cyber security and other risks. That said executives and boards need to use this time efficiently. #boards #quantumcomputing #qc #willowquantumchip #boarddirectors #boarddirector #governance #boardgovernance #riskmitigation

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Intel's fall from grace is more than a tale of tech—it’s a lesson in how success can become a straitjacket. In this week’s newsletter, I explore Intel’s missed opportunities, cultural inertia, and what it teaches us about adaptability in a disruptive world, revisiting some of my "favorite" concepts such modularity vs. integrality, Conway's law, the innovator's dilemma, and the impact of culture.

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