Well, all it has to do is pass a “touring test” - which means that if you can’t tell from an e-mail conversation that it isn’t a human, it is intelligent. How hard could it be to program IBM’s “Watson” to imitate Jesse Jackson?
Seriously, the article posits that the quantum computer is “millions of times” faster than a regular computer. If I have my numbers right, computers have been getting ten times faster every decade - so we’re talking six decades worth of Moore’s Law computer speed improvement. Maybe not an “eon,” but . . .
The article was from yahoo, so it can be assumed to not really understand the issues at hand.
Quantum computers are faster, but only when doing parallel computations. Any linear computations will not be any faster (possibly slower, but it depends on the hardware).
I’m not exactly sure why a quantum computer is supposed to be better for AI myself, but admittedly that is not my field.
The reason people should be concerned about quantum computers finally working is how easily they will crack current security algorithms.
Do you mean the ‘Turing’ Test?
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