Quantum supremacy chase: India in select country club

India has joined a select few countries that chase “Quantum Supremacy” with a Rs 8,000-crore national mission to crack into the nextgeneration technology, which promises exponential ‘compute’ power and to rewrite the rules of present-day computing.

The Department of Science and Technology (DST), which is drafting the contours of the mission to be detailed in a month, is looking to build a homegrown 50 Qubit ‘Quantum Computer’ in 4-5 years as part of the mission, which will also include  ..

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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/quantum-supremacy-chase-india-in-select-country-club/articleshow/74055777.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Scientists devise tech to treat wastewater, generate power

Scientists from five institutes across the country have devised a wastewater treatment technology that can treat domestic wastewater and produce energy simultaneously. A paper on the patented technology, which is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DSIR), Government of India, was published in the Elsevier’s journal Bioresource Technology on Wednesday.

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai-news/scientists-devise-tech-to-treat-wastewater-generate-power/story-IVYXmP5ZYe9co5zjfepS0O.html

Department-Wise Usage of Library: January 2020

Active Users of SFIT LIRC - January 2020

(1^st January to 31^st January 2020) All the below Active Users are eligible for one extra library book for the month of February 2020

Sr.No	Member	No of Transactions
1	CHAVAN ANKITA JEEVAN SARITA	26
2	DESAI YASH CHANDRAKANT CHETNA	24
3	DIVYA SANDEEP AHUJA	24
4	CHAVAN SEEDHITA DHONDU SANDHYA	23
5	NAIK TEJAS PRAKASH JYOSNA	22
6	GUPTA SHUBHAM VIJAY BABITA	22
7	JOSHI SHRIRANG SHRIDHAR SHREYA	20
8	PRASAD KAUSHAL CHHOTELAL MAYA	20
9	CHOTALIA JIGNESH SHAILESH REENA	20

READERS OF THE MONTH - JANUARY 2020

Meet Meena, Google's most advanced conversational artificial intelligence

Google is working towards its best digital assistant that is capable of having a conversation based Artificial Intelligence (AI) model known as Meena.

Meena, a neural network that has 2.6 billion parameters, is a multi-turn open-domain chatbot and claimed to be better than any other AI chatbot available in the market.

Conversational AI is a comprehensive term used to natural language models for AI that understand human language, speak and completes tasks given in simple words.

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https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2020/02/meet-meena-chatbot-a-most-advanced-conversational-ai-by-google.html

The Human-Powered Companies That Make AI Work

The hidden secret of artificial intelligence is that much of it is actually powered by humans. Well, to be specific, the supervised learning algorithms that have gained much of the attention recently are dependent on humans to provide well-labeled training data that can be used to train machine learning algorithms. Since machines have to first be taught, they can’t teach themselves (yet), so it falls upon the capabilities of humans to do this training. This is the secret achilles heel of AI: the need for humans to teach machines the things that they are not yet able to do on their own.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/02/02/the-human-powered-companies-that-make-ai-work/#4c738345670c