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Training a deep neural net on a quantum computer
What happens when you train a deep recurrent neural network on a quantum computer. I wonder if you get consciousness...
Roger Penrose has hypothesized that consciousness could be a result of quantum effects in neurons..
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_consciousness
- mtgx 10y agoQuantum computers and AI seem like they're made for each other, because both depend on optimization algorithms. Now, whether our current AI algorithms can be sped-up greatly by quantum computers, or we'll need to find new AI algorithms that are sped-up by them, we'll have to see. I'm sure Google will try to port DeepMind to its own universal quantum computer in the next few years.
- IamFermat 10y agoI agree. Bringing some funky extreme non-linearity into A.I training would be interesting. However, the models would probably be very different than what we have today. Who else are truly building quantum computers other than D-Wave and IBM?
- argonaut 10y ago1. There are hundreds of hypotheses about our brains. Neuroscientists barely understand our brain, so conjecture about what our brains do is just that - conjecture. 2. Quantum computers basically only offer a runtime speedup for optimization. It'll probably help train neural nets faster, but that's not going to help you in any other area.