{"id":91283,"date":"2019-05-24T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/when-quantum-computing-meets-ai-smarter-digital-assistants-and-more"},"modified":"2019-05-24T23:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T06:42:22","slug":"when-quantum-computing-meets-ai-smarter-digital-assistants-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/when-quantum-computing-meets-ai-smarter-digital-assistants-and-more","title":{"rendered":"When Quantum Computing Meets AI: Smarter Digital Assistants and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-quantum-computing-meets-ai-smarter-digital-assistants-and-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing\u2019s processing power could begin to improve artificial-intelligence systems within about five years, experts and business leaders said.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a quantum computer could develop AI-based digital assistants with true contextual awareness and the ability to fully understand interactions with customers, said Peter Chapman, chief executive of quantum-computing startup IonQ Inc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, people are frustrated when a digital assistant says, \u2018Sorry, I couldn\u2019t understand that,\u2019\u201d said Mr. Chapman, who was named CEO of the venture-capital-backed startup this week after about five years as director of engineering for <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc.\u2019s Amazon Prime. Quantum computers \u201ccould alleviate those problems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/when-quantum-computing-meets-ai-smarter-digital-assistants-and-more-11558631925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computing\u2019s processing power could begin to improve artificial-intelligence systems within about five years, experts and business leaders said. For example, a quantum computer could develop AI-based digital assistants with true contextual awareness and the ability to fully understand interactions with customers, said Peter Chapman, chief executive of quantum-computing startup IonQ Inc. \u201cToday, people are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,38,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91283","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}