If you think AI is terrifying wait until it has a quantum computer brain

Rigetti, a quantum computer startup, recently announced its researchers created a method for quantum computers to run a clustering algorithm (a way for AI to separate data into groups). There are a number of companies, including IBM and Google, using AI in the development of quantum systems, but this is one of the first times quantum machine learning has been successfully tested. It's hard not to imagine a robot that's learned to defy the laws of physics when you hear that companies are beginning to combine AI and quantum computer technology. In a few years, that bot will move so fast you'll need a strobe light to see it. But here at TNW we embrace technology, so let's put aside the fact that our species is currently hard at work finding ways to give computers a brain capable of understanding the universe in a way we never will.