{"id":83285,"date":"2018-10-04T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/quantum-machine-learning-is-a-big-leap-away-at-least-for-now"},"modified":"2018-10-07T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T00:07:10","slug":"quantum-machine-learning-is-a-big-leap-away-at-least-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/quantum-machine-learning-is-a-big-leap-away-at-least-for-now","title":{"rendered":"Quantum machine learning is a big leap away, at least for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-machine-learning-is-a-big-leap-away-at-least-for-now.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing isn\u2019t going to revolutionize AI anytime soon, according to a panel of experts in both fields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Different worlds:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iro.umontreal.ca\/~bengioy\/yoshua_en\/\">Yoshua Bengio<\/a>, one of the fathers of deep learning, joined quantum computing experts from IBM and MIT for a panel discussion yesterday. Participants included <a href=\"http:\/\/www-math.mit.edu\/~shor\/\">Peter Shor<\/a>, the man behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shor%27s_algorithm\">most famous quantum algorithm<\/a>. Bengio said he was keen to explore new computer designs, and he peppered his co-panelists with questions about what a quantum computer might be capable of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quantum leaps:<\/strong> The panels quantum experts explained that while quantum computers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/611962\/faster-quantum-computing-in-the-cloud\/\">are scaling up<\/a>, it will be a while\u2014we\u2019re talking years here\u2014before they could do any useful machine learning, partly because a lot of extra qubits will be needed to do the necessary error corrections. To complicate things further, it isn\u2019t very clear what, exactly, quantum computers will be able to do better than their classical counterparts. But both <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/aram\/www\/\">Aram Harrow<\/a> of MIT and IBM\u2019s Kristian Temme said that early research on quantum machine learning is under way.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612235\/quantum-machine-learning-is-a-big-leap-away-at-least-for-now\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612235\/quantum...t-for-now\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing isn\u2019t going to revolutionize AI anytime soon, according to a panel of experts in both fields. Different worlds: Yoshua Bengio, one of the fathers of deep learning, joined quantum computing experts from IBM and MIT for a panel discussion yesterday. Participants included Peter Shor, the man behind the most famous quantum algorithm. Bengio [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83285","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83437,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83285\/revisions\/83437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}