{"id":19313,"date":"2015-11-13T23:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T07:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/google-researcher-quantum-computers-arent-perfect-for-deep-learning"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:39","slug":"google-researcher-quantum-computers-arent-perfect-for-deep-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/google-researcher-quantum-computers-arent-perfect-for-deep-learning","title":{"rendered":"Google researcher: Quantum computers aren\u2019t perfect for deep learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-researcher-quantum-computers-arent-perfect-for-deep-learning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the past couple of years, Google has been trying to improve <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/11\/03\/google-launches-smart-reply-prepackaged-email-responses-for-inbox\/\">more and more<\/a> of its services with artificial intelligence. Google also happens to own a quantum computer \u2014 a system capable of performing certain computations faster than classical computers.<\/p>\n<p>It would be reasonable to think that Google would try running AI workloads on the quantum computer it got from startup D-Wave, which is <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2013\/05\/16\/google-nasa-quantum-computing\/\">kept at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center<\/a> in Mountain View, California, right near Google headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Google is keen on advancing its capabilities in a type of AI called <a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/07\/30\/andrew-ng-baidu\/\">deep learning<\/a>, which involves training artificial neural networks on a large supply of data and then getting them to make inferences about new data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2015\/11\/11\/google-researcher-quantum-computers-arent-perfect-for-deep-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple of years, Google has been trying to improve more and more of its services with artificial intelligence. Google also happens to own a quantum computer \u2014 a system capable of performing certain computations faster than classical computers. It would be reasonable to think that Google would try running AI workloads on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69201,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19313\/revisions\/69201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}