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Scott Aaronson: Against AI Doomerism

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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How Quantum Computers Are Going to Revolutionize AI and Machine Learning

With Grover's algorithm, if you're paying a factor of a million overhead, and the speed up you're getting is only square root. In order for the Grover's speed up to be practical, which is really when I think quantum computers would really start being very broadly useful for AI, then either you need super-enormous quantum computers or else you need someone has to discover a better way of doing error correction with a lower overhead.

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