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Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Intersection Between Quantum Computing and Machine Learning

I've known Elle Azur-Yakowski since 2006 or so, right? The sort of AI-doom people who have been, you know, very extremely worried about this particular scenario where AI becomes super-intelligent and it takes over. So there are lots of points of intersection between quantum computing and machine learning. You know, whether or not quantum computers will be revolutionary for solving classical machine learning problems is still very much an open question. And what I'm doing for OpenAI actually has nothing to do with quantum computing.

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