Today in AI: IBM's new Quantum processors for generative AI, Should we be worried about OpenAI's Q*?, The debate around AI means its here to stay

OpenAI’s Q* is alarming for a different reason

IBM launches new quantum processors, details plans to integrate generative AI with quantum computing

The technology giant announced ‘IBM Quantum Heron’, a new series of utility-scale quantum processors, its new Quantum System Two and discussed its next 10-year plan to improve the quality of these processors.

• US technology giant IBM on December 4 announced a series of updates on its quantum computing roadmap; expanding it to a 10-year plan and launching ‘IBM Quantum Heron’, a new series of utility-scale quantum processors with an architecture to deliver IBM’s highest performance metrics and lowest error rates of any IBM Quantum processor to date.
• IBM was the first company in 2019 to launch its circuit-based commercial quantum computer called Quantum System One. The system comprises custom components that work to create the most advanced cloud-based quantum computing platform.

OpenAI’s Q* is alarming for a different reason

When AI systems start solving problems, the temptation to give them more responsibility is predictable. That warrants greater caution.

• OpenAI hasn’t confirmed what Q* is, with reinstated Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman only describing it as an “unfortunate leak,” but in the media, it sounds similar to another system Alphabet Inc.’s Google is working on.
• Gemini is the big new competitor to ChatGPT, which won’t only generate text and images but also excel at planning and strategizing, according to Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis.

Rising debate around Artificial Intelligence is the surest sign that it is here to stay

A safe and equitable future, is that what we can hope from AI? Maybe, with careful bioethics, yes, indeed.

• None other than Tesla founder Elon Musk, who kickstarted the commercialization of AI with his initial funding for OpenAI in 2015, has expressed fears about self-learning AI systems turning hostile to the human species, going so far as to say “it poses a greater threat than nuclear weapons."
• In March this year, Musk joined several well-known tech and academic people like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari, in issuing an open letter calling for all labs to pause development on AI for six months, to allow the government to draft rational regulation for it.