Is Quantum Computing the Future of AI?

Quantum computing has grabbed the imagination of computer scientists as one possible future of the discipline after we've reached the limits of digital binary computers. Thanks to its capability to hold many different possible outcomes in the "quantum state," quantum computing could potentially deliver a big computational upgrade for machine learning and AI problems. However, there are still a lot of unanswered questions around quantum computing, and it's unclear if the devices will help with the building wave of investment in enterprise AI. We've done quite well with the line of binary computers that first appeared in the 1950s and have evolved into the basis of today's multi-trillion-dollar IT sector. With just two bits and three Boolean algebraic operators, we created tremendous data-crunching machines that have automated many manual tasks and had a large impact on the world around us.