{"id":237540,"date":"2026-05-21T10:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/geordie-rose-machine-learning-is-progressing-faster-than-you-think"},"modified":"2026-05-21T10:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:02:28","slug":"geordie-rose-machine-learning-is-progressing-faster-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/geordie-rose-machine-learning-is-progressing-faster-than-you-think","title":{"rendered":"Geordie Rose: Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/geordie-rose-machine-learning-is-progressing-faster-than-you-think2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/203599903-singularity1on1-geordie-rose.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMachine learning is progressing faster than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geordie Rose said that to me in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, it sounded like the kind of thing a quantum computing CEO says to drum up attention. Today it reads like a weather report.<\/p>\n<p>Thirteen years ago, the D-Wave founder and CTO sat down with me for over two hours and laid out a thesis most observers found extreme: machine learning would become broadly available far faster than anyone hoped, and quantum computers would help us build AI by 2029.<\/p>\n<p>The 2029 date sounded like science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>It does not sound like science fiction anymore.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/geordie-rose-machine-learning-is-progressing-faster-than-you-think\">Continue reading \u201cGeordie Rose: Machine Learning is Progressing Faster Than You Think\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMachine learning is progressing faster than you think.\u201d Geordie Rose said that to me in 2013. Back then, it sounded like the kind of thing a quantum computing CEO says to drum up attention. Today it reads like a weather report. Thirteen years ago, the D-Wave founder and CTO sat down with me for over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237540","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}