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Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

A quantum boost for machine learning

02 Mar 2017
Taken from the March 2017 issue of Physics World

Maria Schuld describes how researchers are enhancing machine learning – an approach that enables computers to learn and make predictions – by combining it with quantum computation

Two men sit opposite each other playing Go on the wooden board between them. The left player, who has a computer screen by him, is marked with a sign as AlphaGo and a Union Jack schuld@ukzn.ac.za the flag of the UK. The man on the left is marked as Lee Sedol, with the flag of South Korea
Man versus machine: Google’s AlphaGo software beats Go master Lee Sedol in 4 out of 5 matches in March 2016. (Courtesy: Lee Jin-man/AP/REX/Shutterstock)
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Maria Schuld is a PhD student researching machine learning and quantum information processing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, e-mail schuld@ukzn.ac.za
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