{"id":91063,"date":"2019-05-21T11:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-are-building-a-quantum-computer-that-acts-like-a-brain"},"modified":"2019-05-21T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T18:03:19","slug":"scientists-are-building-a-quantum-computer-that-acts-like-a-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/scientists-are-building-a-quantum-computer-that-acts-like-a-brain","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Are Building a Quantum Computer That \u201cActs Like a Brain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-building-a-quantum-computer-that-acts-like-a-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hw.ac.uk\/about\/news\/2018\/heriot-watt-leads-on-next-gen-computers.htm\">new research project<\/a> aims to harness the power of quantum computers to build a new type of neural network \u2014 work the researchers say could usher in the next generation of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy colleagues and I instead hope to build the first dedicated neural network computer, using the latest \u2018quantum\u2019 technology rather than AI software,\u201d wrote Michael Hartmann, a professor at Heriot-Watt University who\u2019s leading the research, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/quantum-computer-were-planning-to-create-one-that-acts-like-a-brain-108716\">new essay<\/a> for <em><i>The Conversation<\/i><\/em>. \u201cBy combining these two branches of computing, we hope to produce a breakthrough which leads to AI that operates at unprecedented speed, automatically making very complex decisions in a very short time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/scientists-building-quantum-computer-acts-like-brain\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research project aims to harness the power of quantum computers to build a new type of neural network \u2014 work the researchers say could usher in the next generation of artificial intelligence. \u201cMy colleagues and I instead hope to build the first dedicated neural network computer, using the latest \u2018quantum\u2019 technology rather than [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91063","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}