AI & ML
“ Ideally we want to completely isolate people from the idea that they ’ re using a quantum machine ,” Hopkins says . “ The vision is , you write a programme that performs some predictions or optimisation , or generally does what supercomputers are good at . And then , you ’ ll send that off by calling a simple operation . Some of that query will run on a conventional computer , some of which might run on a GPU , some of which will run on one or more QPUs , but the idea is , eventually , it ’ ll be completely invisible to you .”
As Hopkins explains , quantum is likely to be more useful in the future than many had perhaps conceived .
“ Quantum is going to be a much more powerful capability than , I think , many people were envisioning ,” Hopkins concludes . “ I think people had in their minds that quantum computers don ’ t become useful until you ’ ve got logical qubits . What we ’ re working out is how to get value out of these things for our clients in the near term .
“ Eventually , I ’ m sure we ’ ll get to very large numbers of logical qubits , but we don ’ t want to wait until that point to get value , and neither do our clients . So , we ’ re doing something different .”
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