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The hybrid study of quantum computers and artificial intelligence, or quantum machine learning, is still in its very early stages. Many of the machine learning algorithms are still theoretical and require large-scale quantum computers to be tested. Still, the marriage between the two has already proven fruitful.
[...] Quantum algorithms could solve problems within AI and vice versa. In addition, quantum theory could help develop more robust AI and help researchers formulate better algorithms. With this technology, we could see groundbreaking research in virtually all areas of study, from cancer research to geopolitics. We could use AI to help scientists solve incredibly nuanced and complex issues.
Source: https://venturebeat.com/2017/10/23/ai-and-quantum-algorithms-together-can-compute-a-better-world/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 01 2017, @03:39PM (5 children)
We just have to quit acting like animals.
Three little words are all you need:
Be nice goddammit!
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Wednesday November 01 2017, @04:40PM (4 children)
There are several things to note about this. First, we are animals. No matter how we act, even being nice, is acting like animals. Second, there is this myth that if we were somehow to become more rational (and less animal-like I suppose) that everyone would "be nice". That ignores that being nice in today's world is significantly suboptimal. If you want this to be the best strategy, then you need to change the game. That won't be simple for a number of reasons such as 1) the people who aren't nice have plenty of tools for thwarting such a game change, 2) you have to worry that the mechanisms that you use for making the world better can be subverted now or in the future by those who aren't nice, and 3) You have to be willing to be not nice in order to get this - the key means of enforcement will be creating negative consequences for those who aren't nice. Finally, an infantile desire for "being nice" without any thought as to how to achieve it is typical primitive animal thinking. "I want this thing, therefore it should be simple to get. Pets will never understand how hard their masters often have to work to feed and care for them."
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:00PM (3 children)
Additionally, we could create positive incentives for people who are nice. There must be some threat of force to stop malicious actors from laying waste to our homes, but given that a sufficiently large stick has been waved we can start building up reciprocal relationships with carrots and protocols.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 01 2017, @05:52PM (2 children)
Does cooperation have negative value? Else we don't need to make positive incentives, they already exist.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JNCF on Wednesday November 01 2017, @06:27PM (1 child)
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Without artificial incentives, nobody has any reason to keep seeding torrents.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 01 2017, @06:36PM