IBM innovations that will change our lives in the next some years.

In the global supply chain, products (manufactured, food, medicines, etc.) pass through many intermediaries before reaching the end customer. So many steps conducive to counterfeiting or other types of fraud. IBM estimates that, in the next five years, what it calls "cryptographic anchors" will develop, like tiny guardians integrated into our everyday objects. These cookies will be linked to a block chain to guarantee the origin and authenticity of certain products as well as certain foods or medicines.

IBM has developed.

IBM Research is working on these tamper-proof links between the physical world and the block chain which records and certifies all transactions in a decentralized way. It could be drops of edible ink or, why not, a tiny computer like the one IBM has developed. Its size is less than that of a grain of rice; it incorporates a million transistors and would only cost a few tens of euro cents to produce. It could monitor, analyse and even act on data. “These It training institute pave the way for new solutions in terms offload safety, authenticity of manufactured components, genetically modified products, identification of counterfeit items and provenance of luxury goods,” writes IBM.

Unbreakable cryptography to ward off cyber attacks

"Five years from now, new attack methods will make current security measures woefully inadequate," Big Blue warns. The American firm envisions that, in the distant future, quantum computers with millions of quits will be able to break the most powerful ciphers. IBM is preparing for this by developing a cryptography based on a Euclidean network (lattice cryptography) which hides data inside complex algebraic structures.These high-dimensional geometric structures, made of grids of infinite points, create an encryption impossible to break without the key, even by a quantum computer, IBM assures. 

Robotic microscopes to protect water         

By 2023, miniature robotic microscopes endowed with artificial intelligence, interconnected via the cloud, will constantly monitor the seas, lakes, rivers... The mission of this equipment will be to study plankton, which is a key indicator to measure chemical pollution or temperature change. In order to be energy efficient and inexpensive to produce, these microscopes will use light sensors instead of a conventional lens. For IBM BENEFITS, this solution could be used in particular in the event of oil spills or other land pollution by infiltration into the soil.

 Towards an impartial artificial intelligence  

As powerful as it is, an artificial intelligence (AI) is only as good as the data used to train it. However, if these data are biased (racial, sexist or implicit ideological prejudices), this will obviously have an impact on the representation of the real world that the AI ​​restores. The lack of diversity in the data used to train the algorithms was recently highlighted by a study by MIT and Stanford University which cited IBM in particular. The latter says he is working on a methodology to reduce the biases that may be present in a set of training data.

IBM believes.

Scientists have also developed a bias rating system that helps determine the fairness of an AI. “As AI systems detect, understand and highlight human inconsistencies in decision-making, they can also reveal how we can be partial, narrow-minded and intellectually biased, which can lead to adopting more unbiased and egalitarian viewpoints [...] we can improve more than AI. We could just improve ourselves,” IBM believes.

 In five years, quantum computing will be widespread    

In 2023, quantum computing will no longer be as mysterious as it is today for the vast majority of us. At that time, IBM tells us, we will then have concrete proof of the applications for which a quantum computer will demonstrate its effectiveness. But above all, within five years, quantum computing will be widespread in university teaching. “Quantum computing will be deeply embedded in a range of degree courses, and learning it will be a prerequisite for science and engineering programs around the world,” IBM predicts.