
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 January 2018
Quantum communications are theoretically secure, but keeping a complex quantum network unhackable in practice is more difficult than expected

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