{"id":15371,"date":"2015-07-11T19:46:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-12T02:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/ibm-watson-cto-quantum-computing-could-advance-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:26:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:26:44","slug":"ibm-watson-cto-quantum-computing-could-advance-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/ibm-watson-cto-quantum-computing-could-advance-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ibm-watson-cto-quantum-computing-could-advance-artificial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence by orders of magnitude.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computers have already been used to test artificial intelligence by researchers in China, albeit in a very limited capacity. Earlier in 2015, a team from the country\u2019s University of Science and Technology developed a quantum system capable of recognising handwritten characters in a demonstration they dubbed quantum artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>This demonstration was on a quantum computer using only four qubits, leading to speculation of what a system using hundreds \u2013 or even thousands \u2013 of qubits would be capable of. Such machines do not yet exist, at least not commercially, but Canada-based quantum computing firm D-Wave systems recently claimed it has built a 1,000 qubit quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>According to Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a machine of just 300 qubits could be used to \u201cmap the whole universe\u201d, processing all the information that has existed since the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/ibm-watson-cto-quantum-computing-could-advance-artificial-intelligence-by-orders-magnitude-1509066\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence by orders of magnitude. Quantum computers have already been used to test artificial intelligence by researchers in China, albeit in a very limited capacity. Earlier in 2015, a team from the country\u2019s University of Science and Technology developed a quantum system capable of recognising handwritten characters [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,20,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-futurism","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69859,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15371\/revisions\/69859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}