Quantum computing and AI
Quantum computers are fascinating for a number of reasons. These are the three that I think about the most:
- The ability of a machine to calculate and manage an infinite number of states for each elemental unit of measurement, beyond the standard options of 1 and 0, is mind-boggling.
- It is equally mind expanding to think that individual quantum operations or calculations can be deferred in the computing or calculating sequence until later in the process, with intermediate calculations being resolved at the end, or near the end, of the process.
- Also, something that's amazing is that the entire calculation process can, and does, dissolve into the complete loss of the calculation process due to the loss of coherence in the system in the middle of a process.
Quantum computing began in the early 1980s, when physicist Paul Benioff proposed a quantum mechanical model of the Turing machine. Richard Feynman and Yuri Manin...
