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That should be interesting. There's been some good physics from there. Flash LIDAR came from Advanced Scientific Concepts there.
UC Santa Barbara is Hollywood's vision of a college. Everyone is good-looking and the college is right on the beach.
I think QNN are very interesting from a compsci perspective, and interesting from a quantum tech perspective, but not so much from a real world perspective. As I understand it loading classical data into a quantum computer - into quantum ram - is a big bottleneck. So running a QNN over a picture of a cat can't give a speedup vs. running it on a classical machine. Is this wrong HN? I haven't found a result showing QNN…
I think Preskill just had a paper out showing average case advantages for common QML tasks.
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QC for optimization and other hard search problems is an interesting area for deeper exploration. It's possible that quantum optimizers could be exponentially faster than existing optimization techniques by evaluating multiple minima simultaneously. Throwing AI on the research campus does help focus what researchers will do there - e.g. research algorithms which can plausibly improve training, inference, and generali…
> It's possible that quantum optimizers could be exponentially faster than existing optimization techniques by evaluating multiple minima simultaneously. Is there any known quantum algorithm that gives a speedup over classical algorithms? I don't mean "call Grover as a subroutine" during your standard classical optimization algorithm.
Also a bunch more.
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> It's possible that quantum optimizers could be exponentially faster than existing optimization techniques by evaluating multiple minima simultaneously. Is there any known quantum algorithm that gives a speedup over classical algorithms? I don't mean "call Grover as a subroutine" during your standard classical optimization algorithm.
I don't understand this question? Grover's algorithm is itself faster than classical search algos. It is as of yet unknown whether quantum computers are more powerful than classical computers; there is no proof that BQP is strictly bigger than P. There is oracle separation but that's not the same thing.
I was sceptical because 'AI' and 'quantum' seems to be used interchangeably and fits your regular snakeoil salestalk but google has done enormous amounts of research into non-classical computing. They've also done their AI projects to solve protein folding faster and more accurate than any contemporary solving models[1]. which is why the name sort of makes sense even though many on HN would appreciate nuance. "Nature…
> I was sceptical because 'AI' and 'quantum' seems to be used interchangeably and fits your regular snakeoil salestalk That was my first take - and akin to saying "quantum intelligence" which just reeks of marketing on a synergy overdrive mission. Of course they are just using quantum hardware/software approach towards AI type problems. So for me it may of been better to say Quantum Annealed AI. But then, as a campus…
Adding "quantum" simply means speed ups for a few specific types of operations. You are not going to get an AGI with the current state of the art in quantum computing.
Powered by not just one, but two buzzwords.
Tech is either esoteric or exoteric. It either is a thing for only experts to understand and use and put to use, or it is something illuminating, something shareable, is a conveyable experience. Quantum AI combines two of the most opaque, hard to understand fields to make something whose prestige in large part rests upon it being entirely indecipherable to 99.9999999% of humanity.
To which I just keep wanting to say, can we please make personal computing a thing again?
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> I was sceptical because 'AI' and 'quantum' seems to be used interchangeably and fits your regular snakeoil salestalk That was my first take - and akin to saying "quantum intelligence" which just reeks of marketing on a synergy overdrive mission. Of course they are just using quantum hardware/software approach towards AI type problems. So for me it may of been better to say Quantum Annealed AI. But then, as a campus…
You realize quantum computing is ultimately just a few linear algebra operations right? There is no more magic in it than conventional neural network based models. Standard ML ethical frameworks are more than sufficient. Adding "quantum" simply means speed ups for a few specific types of operations. You are not going to get an AGI with the current state of the art in quantum computing.