How is this related to AI in any way? Is it just branded as AI to get some share of that sweet AI money (Probably Google only allows funding new projects if they are AI related at this point)
Archived versions of the website [1] mention work on machine learning more prominently, as do some of the linked research publications from a few years back [2].
Perhaps the unit was given the name AI initially but its focus later shifted to quantum computing?
Later: A Google blog post from 2021 explains the connection of quantum to AI better than the current website does [3].
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201210053216/https://quantumai...
[2] https://scholar.google.com//citations?view_op=view_citation&...
[3] https://blog.google/technology/ai/unveiling-our-new-quantum-...
1. Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07090-4
2. Power of data in quantum machine learning: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22539-9
3. Quantum advantage in learning from experiments: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn7293