Future of Work in the Age of AI and Quantum Computing
The Future of Work in the Age of Quantum Computing and AI
The arrival of any new technology is often met with apprehension and many of today's conversations around new and innovative tech circle around the fear of technology being used to replace humans in the workplace.
But for better or for worse, emerging technologies such as machine learning, quantum computing, and AI are bound to change our world. It becomes our responsibility then, to make sure that AI systems are designed and deployed to improve and augment everyone's lives.
A quick primer on artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a field that combines computer science and various datasets to enable a system to solve problems. This field is deeply tied to machine learning, whose focus is on the use and development of computer systems that leverage data and algorithms to imitate the way that humans learn.
How quantum computing powers AI and machine learning
Traditional computing relies on bits or the 1s and 0s to encode information. Similarly, quantum computing relies on quantum bits or qubits to process huge amounts of complex datasets. Because of quantum computing, the algorithms for AI and machine learning make room for the possibility of better learning, reasoning, and understanding.
Quantum computing will become mainstream in about 10 years
Divergence Academy President and 9Brains CEO Sravan Ankaraju noted that we might see quantum computing hit the mainstream in about a decade. "There will be new programming languages built on quantum computing. There's already Q# and other experimental" languages from Microsoft.