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The AI–quantum computing mash-up: will it revolutionize science?

Scientists are exploring the potential of quantum machine learning. But whether there are useful applications for the fusion of artificial intelligence and quantum computing is unclear.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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Google is exploring whether quantum computers can help with machine learning. Credit: Rocco Ceselin for Nature

Call it the Avengers of futuristic computing. Put together two of the buzziest terms in technology — machine learning and quantum computers — and you get quantum machine learning. Like the Avengers comic books and films, which bring together an all-star cast of superheroes to build a dream team, the result is likely to attract a lot of attention. But in technology, as in fiction, it is important to come up with a good plot.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-04007-0

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