AI teaches itself to solve gnarly quantum challenges -- Inside the Perimeter

In popular culture, quantum computing is often painted as an ultra-powerful technology that will first outrace, and then replace, its classical counterpart. In reality, though, the two are inextricably linked. We use classical computation and simulations to develop and design today's nascent quantum devices, which are then nested within a much larger framework of classical computers. The effort to advance these different technologies – which both fuel and rely on each other – resembles something like a dance. Movement is required on both sides.