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Quantum computers could run programs that should be too big for them

21 February 2023

Quantum computers can currently only run small programs but a trick for reducing a quantum program's size could boost their power for running AI algorithms


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Quantum computer made of 6 super-sized atoms could imitate the brain

13 August 2022

Simulations of a quantum computer made of six rubidium atoms suggest it could run a simple brain-inspired algorithm that can learn to remember and make simple decisions


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AI solves complex physics problems by looking for signs of symmetry

18 May 2022

Complicated physics problems are sometimes simpler than they appear, so physicists have made a machine learning model to search for the simplicity


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DeepMind AI helps study strange electrons in chemical reactions

9 December 2021

Strange so-called fractional electrons are crucial to many chemical reactions, but traditional methods cannot model them – a problem that DeepMind has used machine learning to fix


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AI could solve baffling three-body problem that stumped Isaac Newton

29 October 2019

The three-body problem has vexed mathematicians and physicists for 300 years, but AI can find solutions far faster than any other method anyone has come up with


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IBM made a quantum algorithm that could make AI more powerful

13 March 2019

Artificial intelligence can automatically sort out data, but it struggles for some particularly complex data sets – a quantum algorithm could do better


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Clever maths will stop hackers spying on the quantum internet

15 January 2018

Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected


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AI physicists: The machines cracking the quantum code

25 October 2017

We are all too easily bamboozled by the quantum world's complexity – now artificial intelligence is venturing where human minds fear to go


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