Don’t listen to TLC. When it comes to error correction, in fact, do go chasing waterfalls.

A new study shows that artificial intelligence can unlock a “waterfall” effect in error correction, sharply reducing error rates and processing time.

Researchers from Harvard University reported in the pre-print server arXiv that they developed a neural-network-based decoder that outperforms existing methods by wide margins, while revealing a previously hidden regime of error suppression that challenges long-standing assumptions about how quantum systems scale.