AI and quantum computers will be frenemies

Google and NASA launched a quantum computing lab in 2013 using a D-Wave quantum computer to improve machine-learning algorithms.

A 2014 Nature Physics paper showed D-Wave's quantum computer was no better than a normal GPU for AI tasks.

Quantum computing's most promising use-case is simulating quantum mechanics for materials science, chemistry, and biology.

AI firms like Isomorphic Labs and CuspAI use pattern recognition for similar challenges, competing with quantum computing approaches.

Advances in AI and quantum computing are seen as complementary, with each helping to improve the other.