Brilliant, eloquent Dr. Amira Abbas introduces us to Quantum Machine Learning in this episode of SuperDataScience hosted by our Chief Data Scientist, Jon Krohn. She details the key concepts (like qubits), what’s possible today (Quantum SVMs) and what the future holds (e.g., Quantum Neural Networks).
Amira:
• Is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam as well as QuSoft, a world-leading quantum-computing research institution also in the Netherlands.
• Was previously on the Google Quantum A.I. team and did Quantum ML research at IBM.
• Holds a PhD in Quantum ML from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, during which she was a recipient of Google’s PhD fellowship.
Much of this episode will be fascinating to anyone interested in how quantum computing is being applied to machine learning; there are, however, some relatively technical parts of the conversation that might be best-suited to folks who already have some familiarity with ML.
In this episode, Amira details:
• What Quantum Computing is, how it’s different from the classical computing that dominates the world today, and where quantum computing excels relative to its classical cousin.
• Key terms such as qubits, quantum entanglement, quantum data and quantum memory.
• Where Quantum ML shows promise today and where it might in the coming years.
• How to get started in Quantum ML research yourself.
• Today’s leading software libraries for Quantum ML.
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