#ICML2020 invited talk: Iordanis Kerenidis – "Quantum machine learning : prospects and challenges"

The third and final ICML2020 invited talk covered the topic of quantum machine learning (QML) and was given by Iordanis Kerenidis. He took us on a tour of the quantum world, detailing the tools needed for quantum machine learning, some of the first applications, and challenges faced by the field. Iordanis started his talk with a bit of background into quantum computing and why we should be interested in it. He stressed that we should not think of quantum computers as just being a faster processor and providing a blanket speed-up. Crucially, the quantum method is a fundamentally different way of performing computation; it could be much faster for certain tasks, but not all.