Convergence: Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing

CHAPTER 11The Road to a Better Future

Denise Ruffner, Chief Business Officer, Atom Computing; and André M. König, CEO, Interference Advisors and Entanglement Capital

Few people will dispute that we have firmly arrived in a world dictated by data. Facts are increasingly hard to verify, and yet certainty is the true north star. Opinion, bias, and memes drive not just behaviors but most buying decisions. This is as true for a protein shake as it is for enterprise technology. Hence, only those who do the following can succeed in today's world: 1. Collect data; 2. Clean and prep data; 3. Store, secure, and structure data; 4. Visualize and analyze data; and (this is the big one) 5. Act on it consistently and regularly. Welcome to the era of quantum AI.

The world is already divided into two camps—the data haves and the data have nots—and this divide will rapidly widen over the next several years. Note: you can't win at data with old database technology and some AI on top of it.

The Future of Quantum Technology

The quantum technology ecosystem has grown tremendously over the past three years. Not only is the overall number of participants (vendors, startups, investors, etc.) rising at a fast rate, but the maturity and reach of each group has also grown significantly.

In the fall of 2020, there were close to 500 startup companies involved in quantum information science and its applications—with quantum computing hardware and software companies making up the bulk of that group. However, ...