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Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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The Limits of Quantum Machine Learning

I'm very optimistic that quantum computers will help us a lot, right? And in any case, tools from quantum information will be the relevant ones for understanding those problems. I've worked on procedures for learning properties of quantum states using like exponentially fewer measurements than a naive approach would need. That's an absolutely enormous learning problem, okay? But if we change the question a little, then the amount of data that you need to do is exponentially smaller.

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